Voynichese is a numeric cipher?

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You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. - First, you'll see notes about the marginalia on f17r. I'm not making any claims, but Pelling concluded that it's Occitan.

What Nick does there is try to turn the inscription into something that may be coherent in Occitan, while ignoring the actual shapes of the letters. Basically squinting a bit. Like I said in my early comment to his post, it would be more convincing if he provided a little bit of paleographical evidence. Just some arguments for why he disagrees with earlier readings. But the way he approached this problem, you can turn the sentence into any language or dialect you want.

Still, this inscription doesn't tell us much other than the author's language (which could have been Latin) and the fact that the text makes sense and is a code (rather than a language or transcription system) - after the word identified by Pelling as "balsamina," there are two words in Voynich. However, if the author intended to write the note in a pure language, why would they include other words at the end? The only logical explanation is that they were encoded.