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  dfs346 > 09-05-2024, 03:02 PM

  Further exploration of Adriano Cappelli, the Exon Domesday, and abbreviated Latin as a precursor language of the Voynich manuscript.
  
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  The first five lines of folio 1 of “Exon Domesday”. (top) in the original manuscript; (middle) as transcribed in the 1816 Ellis edition; (bottom) as expanded to conventional Latin. Image credits: "Exon: The Domesday Survey of South-West England", edited by P. A. Stokes, "Studies in Domesday", general editor J. Crick (London, 2018), available at You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view..

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  nablator > 09-05-2024, 05:43 PM

  (09-05-2024, 03:02 PM)dfs346 Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Further exploration of Adriano Cappelli, the Exon Domesday, and abbreviated Latin as a precursor language of the Voynich manuscript.

  
  This text is peculiar and not entirely Latin (estormit??? hidam???), the abbreviations are not typical of the 15th century either, it is much too old (1053) to resemble a 15th century ms. Cappelli lists a lot of abbreviations that were no longer in use in the 15th century.

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  dfs346 > 11-05-2024, 07:42 PM

  Further exploration of the Domesday book, and of abbreviated Latin as a precursor language of the Voynich manuscript.
  
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  Three versions of an extract from the Domesday Book (1783 edition, page 119). (Left) from the original manuscript, probably written in 1087; (middle) from the printed transcription published by Abraham Farley in 1783; (right) machine-readable transcription in Unicode symbols. Image credits: public domain and author's work.

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  dfs346 > 15-05-2024, 05:44 PM

  Another visit to Exon Domesday, and an algorithm for restoring Latin abbreviations, and thereby testing abbreviated Latin as a possible precursor language of the Voynich manuscript. 
  
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  An experimental algorithm for restoring Latin abbreviations to a expanded Latin text in which abbreviations are represented by a tilde (~). Author’s analysis.

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  dfs346 > Today, 04:45 AM

  Another look at "Exon Domesday" as representative of a possible abbreviated Latin precursor of the Voynich manuscript.
  
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  The ten most frequent characters in the abbreviated Exon Domesday, sections 1a1-2a1; and the ten most frequent glyphs in the Voynich manuscript, v102 transliteration, “herbal 1” section, pages written by Scribe 1. Author’s analysis.
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