13-04-2026, 07:20 AM
(12-04-2026, 11:03 PM)Jorge_Stolfi wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. Again, I think that someone who was fascinated by the manuscript wanted to make a facsimile of a page as an art project; but cared more about the image than about the text, so he/she improved the former and did only a quick job on the latter. We can see that the text is "crude" and "crooked", but to a "layman" it probably looks as good as the original.You are asuming that someone made a quick careless copy of the text for visual effect, but let us look into actual text evidence.
I will provide only three examples, since I have already published the whole interpretation elsewhere.
In Fabrizio's copy the first word differs systematically from the VM copy
Mark how "cc" could be identified as "k" or as "n" and has its meaning in the language.
Then the one I value most is the :
And the last difference, which could not be done from an awkward copier, but from knowing the text person is:
Note how the whole word is different and while the VM word has no meaning or is unrecoghisable, Fabrizio's copy word has the meaning: bol udvanja- in old dialect- pains of the limbs.
So, no the text isn't "crude and crooked".
It is different. And those differences maybe the key to understand how someone before us read the Voynich.


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