02-11-2026, 09:25 PM
My thought process was like this. The illustrations in the Stars & Nymphs pages tell an account of a sequence of events. People don't go to the trouble of creating lots of illustrations of a sequence of events like that and then hide the text that explains the events. I don't read Latin but for a hundred years lots of people who do read Latin have been studying the text. Ditto German. If it is not Latin or German, what language is it most likely to be? Clue #1: history. The earliest history goes back to Prague. What language was spoken in Prague in the early 15th century? Old Czech (Bohemian).
Clue #2: the single character word EVA "s" ( s ). That screams a Slavic language. What is the intersection of Clue #1 and Clue #2? Czech is a Slavic language.
Clue #3: that leading "o" meaning "about" or "concerning" locked it for me.
The illustrations give general impressions but the only illustration that I could point to and say with confidence what it represents specifically with names is the Classic Greek Elements. That gave me Water and Fire. Two more words to add to "s" and gave me a few more character mappings.
Yesterday when I was trying to translate the first paragraph of page f3r, I was struggling with "chol" and "chor". Some time back I had reached EVA "ch" ( ch ) → "cz". From Elemental Fire, I had EVA "l" → "r" but what was EVA "r" ( r )? For a time I thought maybe it was the two different r's; "r" and "r̂" but that wasn't really working.
I wasn't sure yesterday but today I feel more comfortable with EVA "r" ( r ) → "t".
Weird.
EVA "l" ( l ) → "r"
EVA "r" ( r ) → "t"
EVA "t" ( t ) → "v"
I'm still missing P, B, and L. Nothing here is written in stone! I don't know what to think about EVA "'" ( ' ).
Since it is a medical/religious text, it may have words from Latin and other languages. I expect there were medical and religious names and terms that didn't have a corresponding word in Old Czech. Or maybe they just made up a work-around description. I hope time will tell.
Clue #2: the single character word EVA "s" ( s ). That screams a Slavic language. What is the intersection of Clue #1 and Clue #2? Czech is a Slavic language.
Clue #3: that leading "o" meaning "about" or "concerning" locked it for me.
The illustrations give general impressions but the only illustration that I could point to and say with confidence what it represents specifically with names is the Classic Greek Elements. That gave me Water and Fire. Two more words to add to "s" and gave me a few more character mappings.
Yesterday when I was trying to translate the first paragraph of page f3r, I was struggling with "chol" and "chor". Some time back I had reached EVA "ch" ( ch ) → "cz". From Elemental Fire, I had EVA "l" → "r" but what was EVA "r" ( r )? For a time I thought maybe it was the two different r's; "r" and "r̂" but that wasn't really working.
I wasn't sure yesterday but today I feel more comfortable with EVA "r" ( r ) → "t".
Weird.
EVA "l" ( l ) → "r"
EVA "r" ( r ) → "t"
EVA "t" ( t ) → "v"
I'm still missing P, B, and L. Nothing here is written in stone! I don't know what to think about EVA "'" ( ' ).
Since it is a medical/religious text, it may have words from Latin and other languages. I expect there were medical and religious names and terms that didn't have a corresponding word in Old Czech. Or maybe they just made up a work-around description. I hope time will tell.