The Voynich Pipes

[davidjackson]

It's not porces, but potes

Lol!

So it's something like
a straight line if you keep the light in sight, during the hours of night until the cock crowing.
(although it's a pointless exercise trying to translate this single line, especially after a g&t at this time at night!)

The treatise is speculum Astronomiae, and was an attempt to bring astronomy into the field of Christian study by showing that not all of astronomy was demonic. The fear was that divination was forbidden by God, so any attempt was doomed to be interfered with by demons who would whisper false promises into your ear. In summary, Albertus tried to show that portents were permitted by God and were natural in nature, so they could be read and interpreted by Christians without fear of demonic possession.