Possible related charm for f116v
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If you were to associate Abraham with some body part what would it be? Bosom of Abraham, right? How is it in Latin? "Sinus Abrahae". "Abrahe sinus" form is less correct but also possible.

It looks like our scribe could not know this idiom. Instead of "Abrahe sinus" he wrote it phonetically from hearing something like "Abra hesinii" or so, putting the space in the wrong place.

It only confirms things that we already know about charms. They often contain garbled, unexisting words that could originally have some meaning but it was lost when you heard it someone murmur it.

A nice discovery is that this charm is related to the Irish charm mentioned by Koen. It seems like some international charm  Wink For me the Irish one is more original version and the German one more corrupted version. Frons (front) in the Irish version became fons (source, fountain) in the German one. As the charm is generally about body parts, "frons" seems more natural.

The link:

Ms. germ. fol. 244, folio 295r (1445)
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Notice the date is close to Voynich Manuscript if it matters in anything
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Possible related charm for f116v - by Rafal - 09-09-2026, 02:43 PM
RE: Possible related charm for f116v - by MarcoP - 09-09-2026, 04:28 PM
RE: Possible related charm for f116v - by Koen G - 09-09-2026, 04:35 PM
RE: Possible related charm for f116v - by Rafal - 09-09-2026, 04:48 PM
RE: Possible related charm for f116v - by Rafal - 09-09-2026, 08:19 PM
RE: Possible related charm for f116v - by Rafal - 09-09-2026, 08:35 PM
RE: Possible related charm for f116v - by R. Sale - 09-09-2026, 09:09 PM
RE: Possible related charm for f116v - by Rafal - 10-09-2026, 11:52 AM
RE: Possible related charm for f116v - by Bernd - 10-09-2026, 01:23 PM
RE: Possible related charm for f116v - by Rafal - 10-09-2026, 01:50 PM
RE: Possible related charm for f116v - by Koen G - 10-09-2026, 02:45 PM
RE: Possible related charm for f116v - by Rafal - 10-09-2026, 04:33 PM
RE: Possible related charm for f116v - by JoeyB - 12-09-2026, 04:21 PM
RE: Possible related charm for f116v - by Bernd - 11-09-2026, 10:34 AM

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