What about the labels?
According to the theory of the numerical cipher, one word from the original text corresponds to several words in Voynichese, the number of which is equal to the number of letters in the original word. Encrypting the word and putting everything together won’t work, because it will no longer be possible to decipher it.
But then why are labels present? How can they be explained?
I won’t assume that a heavily shortened word, a word without vowels, etc., is being encrypted. I can explain this by recalling the nomenclator’s logic.
For various proper names (most often words like “king,” “London,” etc.), the nomenclator used special numbers that were not part of the cipher alphabet, and they were encrypted not letter by letter, but as a whole.
There is a hint in Astrology regarding the use of this technique:
Of course, these could simply be the first letters of certain words, since they wouldn’t fit in full (although in that case it’s unclear whether it would even be possible to decipher the required word), but nevertheless, this example is of interest.
In general, the labels sometimes don’t differ much from other Voynichese words: otcheodar olcheesey otolchcThy ochory dcheoldy. This may indicate that these are the same Roman numerals, just very large ones that are not part of the cipher alphabet.
According to the theory of the numerical cipher, one word from the original text corresponds to several words in Voynichese, the number of which is equal to the number of letters in the original word. Encrypting the word and putting everything together won’t work, because it will no longer be possible to decipher it.
But then why are labels present? How can they be explained?
I won’t assume that a heavily shortened word, a word without vowels, etc., is being encrypted. I can explain this by recalling the nomenclator’s logic.
For various proper names (most often words like “king,” “London,” etc.), the nomenclator used special numbers that were not part of the cipher alphabet, and they were encrypted not letter by letter, but as a whole.
There is a hint in Astrology regarding the use of this technique:
Of course, these could simply be the first letters of certain words, since they wouldn’t fit in full (although in that case it’s unclear whether it would even be possible to decipher the required word), but nevertheless, this example is of interest.
In general, the labels sometimes don’t differ much from other Voynichese words: otcheodar olcheesey otolchcThy ochory dcheoldy. This may indicate that these are the same Roman numerals, just very large ones that are not part of the cipher alphabet.