16-03-2026, 04:38 AM
Dear JustAnotherTheory,
To your intention: "and probably give this whole subject a break for a while" I will tell you the following:
The Voynich Manuscript is "The Hotel California" of the scripts- you can never leave. You can think you are finished, but some day you scroll on line, or you are in a bookstore, or you see some root in the garden and you are trapped again. This happens to me several times. There is a spell on this manuscript and we are all under it.
Concerning your investigation:
Conjecture 1. The plants in the VMS "plants" section are not plants.
According my readings the text reveals the medicinal use of the plant. Not all plants have names. And I have readings from two or three of them, since I do not understand everything.
I know my readings are yet not widely accepted , but nobody's proven me wrong yet.
Take plant f2r. While the root system looks like a tangle of snakes, the text indicates that there are two types of thistle- with spiny and and smooth stems. Then it reveals the specific parts and their therapeuphtic uses.
And here comes your very interesting point about the form of the roots. They are not explained. Obviously the iconographic interpretation of the roots' form is not explained explicitely. The reader must find the key (or know it from somewhere) in order to finish the whole.
Conjecture 2. The plants in the VMS "plants" section encode some meaning related to the text on the same page.- Yes I do agree, that the roots' form represents additional coded information. They do like to some animals or human organs or whatever, but the text does not reveal information why they are drawn so.
Conjecture 3. The VMS is a forgery, and the author(s) copied elements from 15th century popular books to make it look authentic.
No I do not think so. The Manuscript has the hallmarks of a working document, not a decorative fake. The effort-to-profit ratio makes no sense for a forgery. Cosider the labour of 240 pages with complex illustrations and expensive pigments, a consistent script across hundreds of pages and unique diagrams...
To your intention: "and probably give this whole subject a break for a while" I will tell you the following:
The Voynich Manuscript is "The Hotel California" of the scripts- you can never leave. You can think you are finished, but some day you scroll on line, or you are in a bookstore, or you see some root in the garden and you are trapped again. This happens to me several times. There is a spell on this manuscript and we are all under it.
Concerning your investigation:
Conjecture 1. The plants in the VMS "plants" section are not plants.
According my readings the text reveals the medicinal use of the plant. Not all plants have names. And I have readings from two or three of them, since I do not understand everything.
I know my readings are yet not widely accepted , but nobody's proven me wrong yet.
Take plant f2r. While the root system looks like a tangle of snakes, the text indicates that there are two types of thistle- with spiny and and smooth stems. Then it reveals the specific parts and their therapeuphtic uses.
And here comes your very interesting point about the form of the roots. They are not explained. Obviously the iconographic interpretation of the roots' form is not explained explicitely. The reader must find the key (or know it from somewhere) in order to finish the whole.
Conjecture 2. The plants in the VMS "plants" section encode some meaning related to the text on the same page.- Yes I do agree, that the roots' form represents additional coded information. They do like to some animals or human organs or whatever, but the text does not reveal information why they are drawn so.
Conjecture 3. The VMS is a forgery, and the author(s) copied elements from 15th century popular books to make it look authentic.
No I do not think so. The Manuscript has the hallmarks of a working document, not a decorative fake. The effort-to-profit ratio makes no sense for a forgery. Cosider the labour of 240 pages with complex illustrations and expensive pigments, a consistent script across hundreds of pages and unique diagrams...
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