Alfonso X's Lapidario: Stones, Stars and Colours

[DarrenW]

Regarding the Chaldean origins of the Lapidario, the manuscript does infact name the Harranian Sabian "Thabit ibn Qurrah" (You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.)

For the stone "De la piedra a que dicen ancalicetz" (Scorpio,27) it mentions "Ceherit el sabio (en la agricultura caldea)" - "Thabit the Sabian from the Chaldea(?)"

I've written several posts about him in connection with the VMS over on Stephen Bax's blog - funny how his name keeps cropping up in different contexts.

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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.

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That's a very sensible hypothesis - and most importantly its testable.