14-05-2026, 03:29 PM
Koen has produced a map where people can mark locations associated with swallow-tail merlons.
As is well known, I have studied and collected ciphers from around the time at which the Voynich is carbon dated to. I had a thought about what a map would look like where each cipher is marked at a location that it is associated with. I suspect that broadly speaking it would not look so different from the swallow-tail merlons map in terms of the clustering of points in the same parts of Italy as on that map. Of course, they would not be identical. There are some geographical areas which have ciphers associated with them like the Kingdom of Aragon which have no swallow-tail merlons and some geographical areas which have swallow-tail merlons which have no known ciphers associated with them. However, overall I suspect the maps to be quite similar.
Obviously, there are other similar geographical distribution maps that could be produced.
One could produce a map of locations associated with alchemical herbal manuscripts or more generally herbal manuscripts from this period of history.
One could produce a map of locations associated with zodiac diagrams from this period of history where the distribution would be more skewed to South Germany/Northern Switzerland.
I am not sure how useful any of these maps might be. Though in theory they might be combined to produce some probability frequency distribution for the place of origin of the Voynich.
I myself have a theory as to precisely where the two sets of swallow-tail merlons on the Rosettes folio correspond to(Milan and Bellinzona) which is in part why I may not have been too focused on identifying all the locations with swallow-tail merlons on Koen's map.
As is well known, I have studied and collected ciphers from around the time at which the Voynich is carbon dated to. I had a thought about what a map would look like where each cipher is marked at a location that it is associated with. I suspect that broadly speaking it would not look so different from the swallow-tail merlons map in terms of the clustering of points in the same parts of Italy as on that map. Of course, they would not be identical. There are some geographical areas which have ciphers associated with them like the Kingdom of Aragon which have no swallow-tail merlons and some geographical areas which have swallow-tail merlons which have no known ciphers associated with them. However, overall I suspect the maps to be quite similar.
Obviously, there are other similar geographical distribution maps that could be produced.
One could produce a map of locations associated with alchemical herbal manuscripts or more generally herbal manuscripts from this period of history.
One could produce a map of locations associated with zodiac diagrams from this period of history where the distribution would be more skewed to South Germany/Northern Switzerland.
I am not sure how useful any of these maps might be. Though in theory they might be combined to produce some probability frequency distribution for the place of origin of the Voynich.
I myself have a theory as to precisely where the two sets of swallow-tail merlons on the Rosettes folio correspond to(Milan and Bellinzona) which is in part why I may not have been too focused on identifying all the locations with swallow-tail merlons on Koen's map.