22-01-2016, 01:31 PM
Hello Don of Tallahassee,
This is really impressive!
Admittedly I have no training or skills in any field that might allow me to make useful commentary about your method. I am just a passionate viewer of all things Voynich.
I would however like to understand the implications of what you have presented: Are you saying that the whole manuscript is just a string of highly abbreviated recipes, with no actual sentences, or context to tie them together?
I would have thought that there would be at least something like a description of the illness that the remedies are for perhaps, or how many times a day one should take them, precautions/counter-indications for use, etc. For example, on your website it appears that folios 1v-10r deal with astringents. Shouldn't words like "colic", "diarrhea" or something similar appear among the frequent words?
I also expected that at least the text of You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. to be more of some sort of introduction to the rest... Is it? Or does the author just launch straight into 5 grams of this and 8 drachms of that etc?
I'd be really interested to see how your translations render f1r. I couldn't find that folio on your site. Does You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. contain any of these most frequent words?
I apologize if I misunderstand/misread all or part of your work, and look forward to reading more of your research!
This is really impressive!
Admittedly I have no training or skills in any field that might allow me to make useful commentary about your method. I am just a passionate viewer of all things Voynich.
I would however like to understand the implications of what you have presented: Are you saying that the whole manuscript is just a string of highly abbreviated recipes, with no actual sentences, or context to tie them together?
I would have thought that there would be at least something like a description of the illness that the remedies are for perhaps, or how many times a day one should take them, precautions/counter-indications for use, etc. For example, on your website it appears that folios 1v-10r deal with astringents. Shouldn't words like "colic", "diarrhea" or something similar appear among the frequent words?
I also expected that at least the text of You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. to be more of some sort of introduction to the rest... Is it? Or does the author just launch straight into 5 grams of this and 8 drachms of that etc?
I'd be really interested to see how your translations render f1r. I couldn't find that folio on your site. Does You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. contain any of these most frequent words?
I apologize if I misunderstand/misread all or part of your work, and look forward to reading more of your research!