PLEASE EXPLAIN - The Voynich Manuscript for Kids?

[-JKP-]

Interestingly, the imagery didn't seem to impress her at all. It was about You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. (OK, she liked the foldouts, but I needed to suggest a non-desctructive method for reordering folios).

At that age, I wonder if vibrant color and familiar forms (child themes rather than adult themes) are more interesting.

Very cool that she recognized that it wasn't "ordinary" text.

[undekagon]

Its a very mysterious fairy tale book picture book written by dragons which no person on earth can read at the moment. It has beautiful pictures and a secret story in it.


That was what I told my little daughter (which is 4 years old). She gave me her toy dragon and played book writing. Perhaps to help me enciphering the manuscript. For her it is all magic and it does not matter if it is a real alphabet, a real language or something else. 

I still hope she will onde day have the right ideas what this book is exactly about. That she something what we adults can't see anymore. Just an idea.

[voynichbombe]

Thank you for sharing your story @undekagon! The open mindedness of children is always heartwarming.

I must admit that wearing papa's pink sunglasses made me make an error. When I leafed through the yale edition recently, I found a bookmark I put in where my daughter stated her "upside down", it was on 66v, not 106r as I wrote before. Now that plant does look odd, indeed..

I also showed the yale edition to my mother who has gained some expertise on herbs in her lifetime (she'll be 76 very soon), but I'll only reproduce her general impression of the plant depictions:

"They look rather flat"

[Koen G]

When my daughter was learning her first words, she ensured me that the VM bulls are horses. Can't blame her really if you look at the things.