By the way, this translation is definitely wrong. Pchedar is not the name of any "medicine" (but if it is an anagram, it might be), and it is found in balneology, including at the very beginning of folio f75v. Most likely, the You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. recipe may have a translation such as "This activity in the morning strengthens your blood" or "Drink this to improve your blood (or anything related to the human body)".
But I think the approach to deciphering was close to the right one. Apparently, the author first deciphered the text and then assembled words from the combination of letters.
He may have been close to the correct translation in that f104r.28 is indeed a spell.
I'd like to dig deeper, but unfortunately, we don't have a shovel yet...
In any case, this example can help us to study the difference between Currier B and Currier A. As we can see, there are no clear boundaries between words in Currier B (but in Currier A, they are probably distinguishable. At the very least, I assume that there is a single set of Voynichese words that corresponds to only one word, and this set does not overlap with another set, i.e., another word*).
It also seems that in Currier B, the letters of the source text are rearranged in an unclear order. But there is some kind of correspondence: qokaiin qotaiin d - l cphaiin d (d after iin); olcheear chedar (two words with ar consecutive lines in the text); or or
*In You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view., I analyzed an encryption algorithm that could theoretically be a simplified version of Currier A, the algorithm used to encrypt the text in the first part of the manuscript. I don't want to reiterate all my guesses about the cipher here, because this thread isn't really about that...
But I think the approach to deciphering was close to the right one. Apparently, the author first deciphered the text and then assembled words from the combination of letters.
He may have been close to the correct translation in that f104r.28 is indeed a spell.
I'd like to dig deeper, but unfortunately, we don't have a shovel yet...
In any case, this example can help us to study the difference between Currier B and Currier A. As we can see, there are no clear boundaries between words in Currier B (but in Currier A, they are probably distinguishable. At the very least, I assume that there is a single set of Voynichese words that corresponds to only one word, and this set does not overlap with another set, i.e., another word*).
It also seems that in Currier B, the letters of the source text are rearranged in an unclear order. But there is some kind of correspondence: qokaiin qotaiin d - l cphaiin d (d after iin); olcheear chedar (two words with ar consecutive lines in the text); or or
*In You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view., I analyzed an encryption algorithm that could theoretically be a simplified version of Currier A, the algorithm used to encrypt the text in the first part of the manuscript. I don't want to reiterate all my guesses about the cipher here, because this thread isn't really about that...