05-02-2026, 10:57 AM
(05-02-2026, 09:15 AM)MarcoP wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.I am not sure it makes any sense, but that 'e' in valsen looks to me like it could be e^ or c^ with an r-abbreviation curl (a shape similar to s). There's a stain there, so the thing is highly dubious. If 8 stands for short-s, like in the Zurich ms, they could be two words "vals e[...r...]n" "vals c[...r...]n".
It could make sense as a viable German word if the last letter were also 'altered' by the stain: valsc[n/?] -> valsch = false/wrong/mistaken. However, don't most 'h' forms in similar handwriting have a looped ascender? And the stain isn't really big enough to cover up any 'h' ascender at all, whether looped or unlooped.
Just for a moment to engage in everyone's favourite bias though - looking for (further dubious) points to support a conjecture: the following word on You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. could then logically and grammatically, if not orthographically, be 'uhren'. 'valsch uhren' = incorrect clocks.
I vaguely feel someone might have suggested this reading before. But it is internally inconsistent: last letter of valsc[?] = unlooped 'h', second letter of 'u[?]ren' = looped 'h'.
(Pah, foolish consistency... the hobgoblin of little minds, as Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote
)Probably -> You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. thread, but 'aror shey valsch uhren so nim gasmich' would possibly mean something like: 'aror shey' was wrong because incorrectly set 'clocks' were used in encoding whatever it was meant to be, so to remedy the situation take goats' milk. Which in turn suggests a clock or volvelle-like mechanism was used for encoding Voynichese.
Wow, ok, that's a lot of un-evidenced leaps of imagination.

