116v

[JoeyB]

Note also how often separate entries are crammed together on one page. My impression of You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. is that it took fragments that may well have been on the same page, and copied them there, without the three of them necessarily all belonging together.

Some thoughts:

• The more crosses in between individual words, the more likely you are dealing with pseudo-Latin formulae. Complete phrases without in-between crosses are more likely to be meaningful, often instructional.
  
• It is almost certain that the scribe had access to a medicinal compendium that contained German.
  
• Either the scribe was not fluent in German, or he was writing without care.
  
• Whatever process gave rise to You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. involved two Voynichese words.
  

The latter point is probably the most interesting. Did the scribe see things in his source manuscript (for f116v) that looked like Voynichese? Was he actively converting parts of the source MS to Voynichese? Or is the Voynichese an idle insertion?

My brain wants to toy with it this way:

(1) If the sentence means something, and
(2) If so nim means to take, and 
(3) If ga[ſ/f]mich is some substance (goat's milk, whatever), 
(4) Then, 
(a) What would the Voychinese words preceding it likely be doing, in terms of structure? (a heading, a preparation, maybe a condition, etc.), and
(b) Why did the scribe writing this fragment of instructions start it off with, structurally at least, what seems to be a Voychinese pair of symbols, and
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