Alfonso X's Lapidario: Stones, Stars and Colours

[julian]

Hi Julian

Your analysis matches my results too. Its nice to have some independent confirmation.

I didn't match (Taurus,23) with (Taurus,29) but thats just a minor difference. (De la piedra que ha nombre aliaza/De la piedra que es llamada aliaza)

Did you read Rene's article here : You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.

Its worth a read. I did wonder if the VMS labels might have a similar function to the labels in Vaticanus gr. 1291 - they describe hours during the day or night. I couldn't see any obvious pattern here either.

Hi Darren,

That's excellent news - unusual to find independent analyses that agree in this field :-)

When I extracted the stone names, I pared away any phrases like "De la piedra que ha nombre" and "De la piedra que es llamada" to leave just the name, as I felt the phrases were superfluous - but maybe I was too aggressive?

I just read Rene' article, which I hadn't seen before - most interesting.

My current hypothesis is that the Recipes in the Voynich are in fact the descriptions of the 300 or so stones in the Lapidario. I need to count them, and compare numbers, lengths in words of the descriptions, and so on.

The other avenue I want to explore is the shapes of the star constellations in the Lapidario with the shapes of star arrangements in the Voynich. An obvious start is the Pleiades, which in the Voynich is drawn differently to how it actually appears in the night sky (the shape of the cluster is wrong, even though there are seven stars). Is the shape of the Pleiades in the Lapidario the same. Indeed, is the Pleiades even drawn in the Lapidario? I haven't looked carefully - is it in the bull here: