(02-09-2026, 01:37 PM)Chagcharan wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.I'd love to. I'm based in Prague and have been scanning through local manuscripts quite a bit lately, looking at zodiacs and other drawings. Quite a few of them do have a voynich-like quality to them. I'm not great at reading latin, though I can read old czech, of which there is also quite an extensive corpus of texts. My german is semi-decent.
That said, I'm not very well versed in the current state of research here in this thread/forum, so if anyone could direct me to how I could be best of help, that would be great.
I've got bookmarks of all the interesting stuff I've found, mostly from digitised manuscripts on manuscriptorium.com - a portal developed by the Czech National Library and the primary place for digitized manuscripts from around here. The majority of unique medieval manuscripts have already been digitised, though some remain.
For context, I'm a PhD student of history and anthropology, specializing mostly in 18-19. century artisans. This is a side hobby
Czechia is a huge blind spot where new entries would be really really valuable. I believe there is only 1 direct manuscriptorium link on there (the blue hatted virgo from prague) so basically everything is likely to be new right now.
Currently, the state of research (for this effort specifically) is a collection of ~400 sources so far as mentioned by Koen above. Every zodiac sign within each source is listed into the relevant spreadsheet and then rated based on a certain set of criteria for the primary purpose of comparison to the VMS. Currently, these criteria are mostly set, but they are still being tweaked occasionally based on new or unexpected things that we are still finding. However, most of the current focus is bulking out the overall sample size in order to start making meaningful observations for both individual signs and overall sequences. (like which VMS-like properties were most common, and where/when)
Two threads dedicated to a sign have been made so far: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. and You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.. Any particularly interesting examples of those signs would be great to see there too. More threads for other signs will be coming at some point, with the next likely being based on which set of zodiac signs seems the most interesting to discuss based on the examples found so far. For example, scorpio and gemini have some great entries will be worth discussing eventually. The main reason i've held off making another specific thread is because every contribution in each thread turns into an entire manuscript source and it would simply be too much to handle.
So I want to start that up once the vast bulk of low hanging entries are added and sorted. For the purposes of analysis -and to remove bias where possible- I take all sources of zodiac imagery, including ones not deemed particularly interesting. But if a particular example or multiple examples are more interesting for any reason, you can definitely mention and discuss them here. If you have bookmarks or links to sources they would be hugely appreciated, and I will add them as soon as I can. The more info you can give for each one the better, but a dump of links is also welcome.
(From memory, I think manuscriptorium can be a little awkward with specific folios and their parent manuscript? If possible, linking to the manuscript itself along with its contents would be extremely helpful!)



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