Anton > 30-10-2016, 04:41 PM
Sam G > 30-10-2016, 05:59 PM
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Page You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. contains a B-language paragraph and a circular diagram
with four rings of text, surrounding four figures and some phrases
at odd angles.
The third ring of text, from the center out (f57v:3) contains a list
of 17 isolated "letters", repeated 4 times with slight variations.
An extra-wide gap at 10:30 and an isolated word at 11:00 outside the
diagram strongly suggest the sequence starts there.
o l j r v x k m f &L t r &H &G y &I &Y
o l d r v x k m f &L t r &H &G y c &Y
o l d r v x k m p &L t r &H &G y c &Y
o l d r v x k m p &L t r &H &G y c &Y
-- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17
18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34
35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51
52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68
As Dennis Mardle observed, these variations suggest that the pairs
<j> and <d>, <f> and <p>, and <&I> and <c> are equivalent (or at
least closely related). On the other hand, the consistent
occurrence of <k> and <t> in their respective places argues for them
being distinct.
Note that charater 16 and its periods have a well-developed
ligature to the right, so the reading <&I>/<c> seems more
correct than <i>/<e>.
ThomasCoon > 30-10-2016, 07:16 PM
D\Imperio 1978, pages 24-5 Wrote:An interesting bit of evidence for the identity of "p" and "f" (and thus, by analogy, the other pair "t" and "k" as well) may be seen on folio 57r, where a sequence of seventeen symbols is repeated four times around a circular band. It is so rare to find any sequence in the Voynich manuscript repeating all or some portion of itself that this example is almost unique. Figure 24 shows the four repeated segments arranged in parallel; in two instances, the symbol "f" with only one loop occurs in the ninth place, while in the other two, we see "p" with two clear loops in the corresponding position. Since all the other symbols appear identical, the conclusion seems inescapable that the single- and double-looped forms are functionally the same.For some reason she says 57r instead of 57v, but it's clear what page she means.
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