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There are plenty of cribs in the Voynich MS. Here, I use the following meaning of the word crib:
"a plaintext word or phrase that is known or strongly suspected to appear in a cipher text."
If one wants to be careful, one could also call them potential cribs.
The point where such cribs appear does not necessarily have to be known, but the more interesting cases are those where we can have a strong suspicion what a particular word should mean.
In this first post I highlight two cases.
The first is from D'Imperio. Figure 30 on page 108 lists the 'houses of the moon' commonly also referred to as the 'mansions of the moon'. According to traditional astrology there are 28.
Now the astronomical / cosmological figure on You are not allowed to view links.
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This is as good a crib as one can get.
But it even gets better. D'Imperio's figure shows that the majority of these names start with an 'a'. In You are not allowed to view links.
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The second one is one I proposed myself some two decades ago by now.
f67r2 shows a circle split into twelve segments. There is a good chance that these represent the twelve zodiac signs.
The second ring from the outside has short pieces of text covering 3-4 lines each.
In seven of 12 segments there is one word standing apart a bit.
There is a good chance that these are the seven planets ruling this zodiac sign.
There are plenty more cribs, which I may add later on. Others are welcome to do the same of course.