(06-08-2020, 12:06 PM)Aga Tentakulus Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Maybe you should look at other but whole texts.
This one comes pretty close to the german dialect used in VM. So you can form your own picture.
Apart from that, the word structure is similar to the VM text.
This does not mean that the VM-Text is in German!
It's only about the characters.
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Interpretations depend on:
1. which letters are taken into attention;
2. how questionable/illegible letters are interpreted.
I'm inclined to consider the underlying text, not those letters that overlayed. On my subjective view, they don't matter at all, or play some additional role. And I want to note that "d" to the right quite differs from the bottom "d", it looks more like the Voinichese "
n". I don't know whether it is important, but what is important, on my view, are the underlying letters/symbols and the words.
I see it as Latin notes or, at least, notes in some dialect of some Roman language.
Some time ago I wrote that I think that the three words must be Latin: ren - a kidney, bodyside; mel - honey and mus or muris - a mouse/of a mouse. Revising it, I probably will change my opinion in favor to "mu
r" or "mu
s" interpretation as "mucor" (or mucre, mucro).
r = ter;
s = cer (usually)
"Mucor" is asserted to be a post 1650's word, but I already found it in the Dictionarium copiosissimus" (1516), so I won't be surprised if it existed much earlier. It is translated as: 1) moldy bread; 2) wine-must.
Of course, I think that we must consider the context that is given by an image. Although German "muss" or "mussmel" seems to fit this context more or less, but I think Latin version: ren + mucor + mel is better. My explanation:
the word "mel" is written right above the image of a pot with the yellow matter. The yellow spot also appears on the body side of the depicted human figure. The word "mu?" that damaged with the symbol similar to the letter "O" is quite questionable, but the shapes under the overlayed letter remind abbreviation symbols (
r or
s), with the latter I can suppose "mucer" or "mucor". If you look at the picture next to it, you will see the round shapes with dots. Perhaps, they imply exactly bread with spots of mould. Thus, the word is accompanied with the picture related to it.
As for "ren", I didn't found medieval recipes for kidney treatment with applications of moldy bread, but from ancient Egyptian healers to medieval doctors it was used for treating of wounds and dermal inflammations. Now we know that must is penicillin.
Honey was a popular remedy,as well, in particular, it was used as an ointment.