01-01-2026, 03:21 PM
(This post was last modified: 01-01-2026, 03:40 PM by PeteClifford.)
Returning to the question of the one or two words of Voynichese text in the You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. marginalia, I wondered if we could achieve anything approaching a consensus over how they should be read?
I see something like <oteeeol aim>
However, <oteeeol> is not attested in the manuscript, while <aim> is found, but only 7 times (according to voynichese.com).
If we could bend the text to be <oteeeos aiin>, which doesn't seem too much of a stretch to me given how hard this is to make out, even with MSI, then the first of those "vords" appears just once, while the second is common (470 occurrences according to voynichese.com - I count 504 using the ZL transcription), and I thought it was worth mentioning that this exact "phrase" (word sequence) <oteeeos aiin> occurs on f105r. To put it another way, the only time <oteeeos> is found in the VMS, it is followed by <aiin>.
Anybody else more experienced than me like to offer a reading? If I've missed this in the preceding pages of this thread, my apologies. I note that the ZL transcription seems to include this text, where others do not, and has:
<f17r.13,@Lx> oteeeon.oiil
Both of those vords would be unique in the VMS. I'm not sure if this reading was based on the MSI or not.
I see something like <oteeeol aim>
However, <oteeeol> is not attested in the manuscript, while <aim> is found, but only 7 times (according to voynichese.com).
If we could bend the text to be <oteeeos aiin>, which doesn't seem too much of a stretch to me given how hard this is to make out, even with MSI, then the first of those "vords" appears just once, while the second is common (470 occurrences according to voynichese.com - I count 504 using the ZL transcription), and I thought it was worth mentioning that this exact "phrase" (word sequence) <oteeeos aiin> occurs on f105r. To put it another way, the only time <oteeeos> is found in the VMS, it is followed by <aiin>.
Anybody else more experienced than me like to offer a reading? If I've missed this in the preceding pages of this thread, my apologies. I note that the ZL transcription seems to include this text, where others do not, and has:
<f17r.13,@Lx> oteeeon.oiil
Both of those vords would be unique in the VMS. I'm not sure if this reading was based on the MSI or not.