14-08-2026, 09:00 PM
(14-08-2026, 04:22 PM)Jorge_Stolfi wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.He just did not care enough about the manuscript to study its writing in any detail.Assumption.
(14-08-2026, 04:22 PM)Jorge_Stolfi wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.He naturally felt that any reconstruction, no matter how incorrect, would be better than just leaving that text erased for good.Assumption.
(14-08-2026, 04:22 PM)Jorge_Stolfi wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Or the Repairman may have been a relative or acquaintance of the owner, or a student who checked the book out of the Collegio Romano library. Then his goal may have been primarily to cover up the damage he did, hoping that the owner would not notice until it was too late for him to identify the culprit.And it sounds interesting with relatives. A hypothetical grandmother could accidentally ruin a book belonging to her beloved grandson
(14-08-2026, 04:22 PM)Jorge_Stolfi wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.(like your "Peda ...Conpedia" example: the words sound like Latin and have valid Latin prefixes and Latin-like inflections).They can be said to parody the word “inpediae”.
(14-08-2026, 04:22 PM)Jorge_Stolfi wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.It would help your claim if there were any other examples of charms with any of the words "six", "marix", "morix", or "abia". Are there?Why “abia” and not “ahta/abta”?
Also, even though the text itself is not spoken, there are certain meaningful lines. The second line is a spell, the third is what needs to be done (to use, apparently, balm and goat’s milk).
(14-08-2026, 04:22 PM)Jorge_Stolfi wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Do you mean that the Scribe wrote a Latin script "chi" that vaguely resembles parts of a Voynichese platform gallows because he had written a lot of Voynichese? That is not how things work. I had to write a lot of Hiragana when I was trying to learn Japanese, but that did not change the way I wrote Latin letters. Our brain is very good at keeping those things separate. Someone who plays both piano and violin will not look for the pedals when playing the latter...Voynichese is not Japanese. In terms of style, it’s the same cursive script as Latin. The scribe could easily have developed a skill and written e instead of c, and rendered the “ch” combinations as a gallows on a pedestal.

