[split] Big f116v spillover thread.

[Jorge_Stolfi]

Personally, i believe there is meaning, it's just that the handwriting is so sloppy we can't read any of it besides a few words here and there

If it was just a matter of sloppy handwriting, we should have figured out the text 70 years ago.  But the handwriting is not that sloppy.  It is not cursive.  At worst, there are only a few possibilities for each latter.  Juggling all the possibilities would not turn "michiton", "oladabas", "morix", "abia",  "pbren" etc into words of any language.  Those few "words" that could be "Germanish" or Latin words do not make sense together.

we see the capital 'N' which i pointed out along with the '+' shapes, but we also see the phrase 'ſo nim' meaning 'then take', being one of the most common phrases in medieval charms.

Again, the Restorer who tried to recover the lost (Voynichese) text apparently thought that the parag was a charm, and tried to "restore" the smudges accordingly.  

Wherever there is now a cross, maybe there was a smudge that looked like cross, or maybe there was just a blank space and he assumed that there should have been a cross there too, because in charms typically there is a cross at every word space.  Charms often have a (capital) N that is supposed to be replaced by the name of the target person, and presumably there was a smudge at the end of the line that could be a large (lowercase) n, so he restored its as such.  On the last line there were smudges that he thought could have been "so nim", so that is what he wrote.  And so on...

By the way, two of the crosses (after "multod" and after "cere") are closed at the northwest quadrant by a diagonal line, so that they look more like a "4".  But crosses are normally drawn with a vertical down stroke and a left to right horizontal stroke.  If the quill is not completely lifted off the vellum between the two traces, the result would be a diagonal line closing off the southwest or northeast quadrant, depending on which stroke is drawn first.  The diagonal line at the northwest suggests that what the Restorer saw there was a "4", not just a cross.  Like a partially erased q...

All the best, --stolfi