Here’s the current Big Fat List of Voynich-related novels: I’ve appended links to the most significant review / blog mentions I’ve made about them. If there’s anything missing, please drop me a line & I’ll try to update the list as appropriate. I’m gradually working my way through them all, but it’ll take a fair while to read the lot…
Voynich novels in print (in English):
(1969) Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos Colin Wilson [mentioned here]
(1969) The Philosopher’s Stone Colin Wilson [my review]
(1969) The Face in the Frost John Anthony Bellairs [mentioned here]
(1994) Indiana Jones and the Philosopher’s Stone Max McCoy [my review]
(1999) The Grinning Ghost Brad Strickland [mentioned here]
(2000) Deliver Us From Evil Tom Holland [mentioned here]
(2001) Enoch’s Portal A.W.Hill [my review]
(2004) Popco Scarlett Thomas [my review]
(2004) The Magician’s Death Paul C. Doherty [mentioned here]
(2005) Codex Lev Grossman [my review]
(2005) Olympos Dan Simmons [mentioned here]
(2007) Vellum Matt Rubinstein [my review]
(2008) The Source Michael Cordy [my review]
(2008) The Charlemagne Pursuit Steve Berry [my review]
(2008) The Voynich Project: Nephilim Rising James K. Rollins [my review]
(2008) In Tongues of the Dead Brad Kelln [my review]
(2008) The Voynich Enigma Baz Cunningham [my review]
(2009) The Book of God and Physics: A Novel of the Voynich Mystery Enrique Joven [my review]
(2009) Mappamundi Christopher Harris [my review]
(2010) The Radix Brett King [my review]
(2010) “That’s Life, Samara Brooks” Daniel Ehrenhaft
(2011) “The Cadence of Gypsies” Barbara Casey [mentioned here]
(2011) “In a Celandine World” – Catherine Thorpe
(2012) “The Book of Blood & Shadow” – Robin Wasserman
(2012) “Vaults of Power” – Diane Echer
(2012) “The Voynich Cypher” – Russell Blake
Voynich novels in development (working titles where known):
Bill Walsh [mentioned here]
William Michael Campbell (”The Voynich Solution”) [mentioned here and here]
Andrea Peters (”I’m Sorry… Love Anne”) [mentioned here]
Voynich experimental fiction:
(2006) Voynich, a cyber-noir screenplay (parts 1, 2 , and 3) Matthew Thomas Farrell [briefly reviewed here]
(200x) The Voynich Enslavement Hank Snow [reviewed here]
Voynich short stories:
(2009) The Voynich Fugue Nick Pelling
(2009) Generic Historical Cipher Mystery (short version) Nick Pelling
(2009) The Voynich Christ Nick Pelling
(2009) u r so qokedy daiin, m8, lol Nick Pelling
(2009) The Fake Factory Nick Pelling
(2009-2011) The Voynich Translation (Chapter 1) (Chapter 2) (Chapter 3) (Chapter 4) (Chapter 5) Nick Pelling
(2010) The Final Blow Nick Pelling
(2010) “The Voynich Code” movie Nick Pelling
(2010) Square #1 & Wife #8 Nick Pelling
(2010) Go Oilers Nick Pelling
(2010) A Beautiful Infinity Nick Pelling
(2010) So Goddamn Voynich Nick Pelling
(2010) The Voynich Tattoo Nick Pelling
(2011) The Voynich Variations Edoardo Albert
(2011) FS: cursed cipher manuscript, slightly singed… Nick Pelling
Non-English-language Voynich novels:
(2001) Datura tai harha jonka jokainen näkee Leena Krohn (published in German as “Stechapfel”) [mentioned here]
(200x) L’intrigue de Il Romanzo Di Nostradamus Valerio Evangelisti [mentioned here]
(2005) Das Voynich-Rätsel : Thriller Florian F. Marzin
(2007) LA PIEDRA FILOSOFAL Iñaki Uriarte [mentioned here]
(2007) Manuscrit MS 408 Thierry Maugenest
(2007) El Quinto Mandamiento Eric Frattini [mentioned here]
(2007) L’UOMO NELLA LUCE Walter Martinelli [mentioned here]
(2008) El castillo de las estrellas Enrique Joven [mentioned here]
(2008) El libro maldito de los templarios Francisco Díaz Valladares [mentioned here]
(2008) Das Voynich Manuskript. Mystikthriller [Ungekürzte Ausgabe] (Broschiert) Panagiotis Konidaris ; übers. von Maria Sabbas-Scouras
(2012) I Custodi Della Pergamena Proibita (The Keeper of the Forbidden Parchment) – Aldo Gritti
(2012) Voynich: Il Segreto Del Barabba (il più grande segreto su Gesù) – Barbara Cesa
thank you for this list. Having gone through all of your reviews, I’m unsure whether there is a VM novel you would recommend, not only in terms of faith to the history of the manuscript, but in terms of literary quality. If I were to read one book on the list, which would you recommend?
thanks, e
Ernesto: the Indiana Jones novel is the one to go for!
Thank you, Nick. cheers, e
Hi all,
My book is getting lots of traction yet still I have not recieved royalties so I up it it $3.00! The Code Unchopped shows you where the book was authored, how to decode the voynich, Rosetta Wheel words, Folio 67r full astrology, Several decoded paragraphs and a actual historical location of the Castle from the cover on the book.
If only Nick, William Friedman and an Elite decoding team and I could get together funded by Yale or some Rich dude we could get the whole Voynich decoded by I estimate in 2014. Wishing you all well here!
@Thomas: Mr Thomas, I went to Amazon to see about your book, but the reviews of those who have read your book are utterly bad. It dismissed me completely.
Thomas E. O’Neil , your book seems out ofprint…any way i could buy elsewhere then amazon?
After devouring Nick’ s book, i need a voynich fix…any recommandations on actual historical, well researched books like your’ s Nick?
“real hesitance”: “An Elegant Enigma” has lots of good stuff (and is now downloadable for free), while Gerry Kennedy and Rob Churchill’s book is basically OK, if a bit journalistic overall. If you want something hefty to read around the subject of historical cryptography, David Kahn’s The Codebreakers remains #1. Apart from that… there’s not a lot in English.
Deborah Harkness: The Book of Life, novel features the Voynich
Jennifer: I read all three books of the trilogy ages ago. Book 1 was a nice “posh vampire romp” read for most of the way through… but then you can almost hear the editorial meeting where her publisher says “Look, Deborah, stretch this out for three books and make us all some serious money, OK?”, so she backs the story away from the big showdown etc and the pace drops to a crawl. Book 2 was a big quality drop down from Book 1 (sorry Deborah, but it’s true), while Book 3 was basically OK.
In French, Manuscrit ms 408 by Thierry Maugenest is good.
He takes quite a different approach from the other novels that I know about.
Here Roger Bacon wrote the VMs, and presented a philosophy that is so far advanced beyond what the human race can currently handle that anyone who reads it is in for a grievous fate.
The real vms-list shows up in the story. He describes several examples of the VMs cipher system, although most of them don’t make real sense, the only exception being an equivalent to Currier. The VMs’ opening words mean, “Qui hunc librum lecturus est… [Latin, in English: S/he who is about to read this book…]”.
in his publicity he mentions several real students of the VMs in his publicity, including me, although unfortunately I don’t recall whether he mentions you.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o08mjo4xwPs&t=13s
voynich encoding system without microscope
Have you read The Bloodletter’s Daughter by Linda Lafferty? Obviously a work of (fantastic) fiction, but her descriptions of the MS sparked an intense need to learn about it. I’ve been down the rabbit hole ever since!
Chelsea Vaughn: I bought the book when it first came out (I’ve reviewed numerous books on this website), but found it unexpectedly hard to read, and never managed to get even halfway through it. Having said that, it’s true that not every book is for every reader, so I didn’t feel it fair to review it when I hadn’t even finished it.
A short story in Welsh by Mihangel Morgan is based on the Voynich Manuscript. ‘Y Seiffr’, Kate Roberts a’r Ystlum a Dirgelion Eraill, Y Lolfa, Tal-y-bont, 2012.
The last book you will ever need about the MS-408. I admit my past decryptions were insane, but through the insanity I landed a low entropy logical explanation. The Star Charts are unlocked and a date for the content of the book. I will never have to use another cipher ever again and I don’t feel uncomfortable about this decryption, it is 100% the Truth about MS-408 whether Yale likes it or not, too bad.
Ever wondered about the Rosettes? Video and link, this will stun you and shock you!
https://ros2-voynich.great-site.net/?i=3
https://youtu.be/u3GuOBQ9qec?si=ThPI6_8aHSm8LtcH
Two to look at.
Free
https://zenodo.org/records/21711172
My books:
MICHAŁ WOJNICZ FORGED THE VOYNICH MANUSCRIPT
https://a.co/d/07DWdn93
The SuperNova of 1006 AD. which inspired “speaking in tongues” Voynich Manuscript
https://a.co/d/06hvEONv
Thomas E O’Nei
I Can’t find too much fault with what you’re on about re Mich Wojnic’s authorship, of BM 408, although I’ll add that he had lots of help from family. Mostly input from his mother in law (Mrs. George) Mary Boole, the actual proposer truth be known, his wife Ethel (Lily) plus four compliant sisters in law, all with remarkable individual talents. Mary Hinton, Maggie Taylor Alice Stott and Lucy Boole, each with indivicual skills that fitted to a tee with each and every aspect requisite for said manuscript to be successful in its singular purpose…to get even with the pompous upper class educaters of the times.
Most hard line Voynicheros stand-by their fifteenth cent. B408 artifact, reasoning based on un-ranked Uni. of Arizona’s C14 spectro anal. carbon dating which could be right, as is their (fake) Vinland map time line accuracy. Or else might be a load of shit (as implied ptp) which would be hardly surprising as I have explained often enough. Ninja expertise will attest to prior evidence of ‘actual’ book ownership by King Rudolf gardener/physician Jacobus Stepenicz (sic) based solely on a blurred signature beneath script on its opening page f1r. My gut feeling suggests the botch job was that of Michal Wojnic [sic] himself who’s signature just so happened to end with ‘z’. From his room in Waldorf Astoria or Manhatten Hotel midtown NY., Wilfrid Voynich became an important translator for the nearby Government intelligence Cypher Bureau (MI 8 American Black Chamber), along with his pre war associates Capt. John Matthews Manly (2IC) & Edith Rickert both ex Chicago Uni. English. Lit. author/lecturers who volunteered together in 1917. Did you know that rusky Bill Friedman got his job by sucking up to a US Govt. power broker named Churchill.
Cryptographer William Friedman was certainly not a friend of Herbert Yardley’s rough and ready, but effective team of cipher sleuths and undercover agents of the Black Chamber. So much so he had the war department secretary Stimpson, of “Gentleman don’t read one another’s mail” notoriety which left operatives Manly, Rickert, Yardley and the dedicated Voynich out of work as the war terminated. Not only were they suddenly split up, Yardley the boss was forced to leave US for China and took up service with Canadian Intel. during WW2, so as to avoid impeachment or worse at home; Whilst Voynich was placed under close scrutiny and harrassed by Federal Agents due to a suspected enemy code book he carried everywhere he went. Eventually they all went back to what they did best, including Wilfrid who was eventually exhonorated…Yardley is buried at Arlington with full honours in a space reserved for Military Intelligence Hall of famers, as are Bill & Elizabeth Friedman.
BBC TV headline news: “Polls close in New Zealand General Election” What’s the difference between that anmouncement just in, and “Polls close in New Zealand General Election” of an hour ago. We’re here at the canal trying to figure whether the vote count between parties be close, or if the poll booths are now closed for vote counting.
…Latest on New Zlnd’s earth shattering elections be that they are, as yet too CLOSE to call. Not so the all important rugby union world cup semi final at Newcastle (on Hunter) last night. In appalling conditions, tame Tonga-tapu went down to the Kiwi all Blacks (most of whom are Tongan or Samoan) 34 to 10 before a record crowd of nearly 30,000 bi-partison, bi-lingual, bi-sexual sports fans..keep yous posted on the outcome.
Thomas E O’Neil: call me a doubting thomas or a jackass, whichever one be most appropriate; honest injun truth be known, I can’t say that I’m overly enraptured with your cu*t up Rose2 vulva entrance with its additional appendages that could be sea urchins going by my limited experience with both unattractive forms. There also be visual similarities to other f116 sketches that with my limited enginering background would seem to form part of a sophisticated underground ore mining network. Hooked up to aboveground turbine units, filtration plants, cooling fans and other essential functional emission contols circa. 1905, ie., the five stage exhaust muffler protrudence from the hairy vulva look alike? one that defies any logical purpose or sound reasoning for being where it was never intended.
John,
You will be pleased to hear that the Beinecke library is slowly moving closer to your theory, at least time-wise.
Their recently re-formatted front page (no bibliog. providing their evidence tho’) says the ms was “produced” – unsure how that’s defined – in the ‘late fifteenth or sixteenth century’. Surely not a randomly chosen addition of up to a century to the radiocarbon-14 range. (I wonder what Greg might think about that).
Also wonder what Claire Bowern thinks about it, given that her palaeographic study in 2022 found the script-formation (admittedly only of five ‘most Latin-looking’ glyphs) most like much earlier scripts – uncial or Beneventan hand.
Anyway, Lisa Fagin Davis has a book in press, so I look forward to seeing lots of images comparing the codicological info to other ms, and the script to other scripts… If I knew the publisher I’d pre-order.
Two unforgivable errors with the footy in that yesterday’s Newcastle debacle was a Rugby League world cup semi final and the winning side was of course the Kiwis not the mighty All Blacks which are the NZ national rugby union team. Doubt that anyone picked up on my blooper thank heavens. Australia’s Kangaroos knocked out Samoa in Sydney without too much trouble today, a good rough and tumble match nonetheless.
Thomas E O’neil,
There’s a neat conincidence. On the very last page, we have your human vulva offering egg transpositional passage to the womb for fertilization and subsequent child birth if all goes well. Then on page one there’s something of the same order occuring with my samara winged pod spiraling earthwards, intention being to drop its load into fertile ground for sprouting a tree sapling when suitable conditions prevail. How about them apples?
Thomas…Meant to say how’s them maples? Apple trees don’t sprout samara winged seed pods to the best of my limited knowledge!
John, are you perhaps the same John Sanders who is an Vietnam veteran and worked to reunite veterans with their mixed race children/
Tracy, Your specifying ‘mixed race’ reminds me of the 1930s when if one person was Catholic and the other Protestant it was called “a mixed marriage” and both parties would have their “pictures turned to the wall” – names never to be mentioned again. We look back at our grandparents and wonder how they could have been so small-minded.
I pop by from time to time to see what is happening in Voynich world.
A few points:
1 there is no ‘biological’ section.
2 there is no ‘astrological’ section.
3 Wilfred Voynich lacked the knowledge to produce a forgery.
1 the illustrations show baths and showers fed by gravity with water flowing in a hierarchist fashion and eventually discharging as waste. The illustration of a fish swallowing a woman is a warning sign: the water is no longer fit for any human use.
2 The zodiac and 8 moon phases relate to a long-standing tradition, practiced to this day, of planting and harvesting according to the zodiacal time of the year and the phase of moon.
3 There is no record of Voynich having spent considerable time in Lombardy. The VM script could only have been written by someone with access to manuscripts in the general Milan / Parma region and the time available to study them. There are, or were*, in that region many such manuscripts with VM style glyphs. The further one moves in space or time from 15th C Lombardy, the fewer the VM style glyphs to be found in Ms.
* Some libraries / archives no longer exist, having been destroyed in WW2.
Tracy Van Bukirk,
You might ask Steve H. our resident expert on all things relating to my past, the good the bad & the ugly sides, trials & tribulations etc., Let he/she set you straight on that count if you don’t mind; in any case your query has been subject of mirth only recently right here, nice picture and all.
Patrivk Lockerby,
Can’t find any problems wiith your assertions, ie., sans bio. nor astro. sections or Willy V. being way short on nouse to do the fake manuscript with fancy make over artistry and what have you on his pat malone so truth be known I wouldn’t have a clue. What I do know for sure is that Voynich was a fully fledged apocotharist by trade and calling, so shows there was a liberal grounding of natural science in his make up. As for frequency of travels to Lombardy environs, one might hazard a guess and assume that he accompanied his relatives, the Taylors on some of their student oriented art group forays to the scenic lower alps and Po river tributories. Margaret was Lilly’s art student sister and her husband Edward, a landscape cum floral artist who travelled the world for P & O. They begat two fine sons who joined them in their travels often sailing to the Med. both becoming famous in their own highly professional vocations (nucear science & Changi POW camp neuro surgeon), one of whom (Geoffrey from memory) was, along with his Hinton cousin Jorge, a favourite with aunt Ethel Lilian Boole and helped with her Voynich manuscript plant identification studies during her later widow’s life in America.
Diane: Bui Doi and Con Lai status in the post war Vietnam era be mild derogatory references to offspring of mixed blood, ie., children of the dust, a term identifying with sex starved American GI fathers and a money hungry Vietnamese mother. Nothing to do with mixed marriage per se and thankfully any that are left hoping for salvation or a ticket out are no longer ostrasized as when they’d been street urchins sleeping in parks around Saigon begging for a yankee dollar or two. There were absolutely no half cast kids born to genteel Aussie jungle killers and bookoo taboo Vietmanese ladies according to Canberra Foreign Affairs and Immigration Depts. respectively (disrespectfully as some found out), so alls well that bends well, eh nudge nudge wink wink!
Tracy: my apologies, thought you were another bad loser with a grudge; to bare. Now I can see you’re an artist out of Newtown Connecticut which is great to hear, following the triumph against Trump last Tuesday. I’ve lived in Vietnam half my life and hope to remain insitue for at least another forty years. Back in the late 80’s I teamed up with an Hawaii based aid fund called FACES as in Foundation Amerasian Children’s Emergency Support, alongside a fellow nam veteran out of Hawaii, John Rogers who had taken on the unusual lone task of helping to resetle street kids in downtown Saigon of all extractions and shades. John Rogers himself was a black ex Army Sgt. and Namvet who married a Vung Tau girl during his extended Vietnam service and they had remained childless in the time I knew him. I took Sgt Rogers to Australia in 1990 as part of the extended program to bring ex Aussie veterans upto scratch regarding acknowledgement of half caste kids left behind after their service which drew only limited response despite our determined efforts; and none at all from Canberra, the seat of Govt. having oversight for such administrations in matters of concience…By 1992 John Rogers had succeeded beyond all expectations in his mission to resettle most of his Amerasian ‘family’ of all ages into mainstream American society…John died quite a few years ago, being at that time a homeless demented? man of color who had been up until his deteriorating health, a most ardent passionate supporter of disadvantaged war veterans and their families. Tracy, should you wish to learn more about my friend and companion John Roger’s tireless work for the good of the poor and down trođden, Hawaii and California tabloid newspapers will surely hold a wealth of articles on JR’s FACES program and his later charitable contributions. So far as I’m aware you should have no difficulty tracing them. Best of luck with your art and happy hunting. Regards JS @ Can Tho.
Patrick,
I agree with your conclusions on all three points, though our reasons for the first two are very different.
john sanders, to wake you from pareidolia without a cipher and image to word puzzle concurrence its just your imagination. I have the cipher and the facts. This video shows, confirms the facts and evidence of a two stage cipher with MS-408. The truth will get through the deception.
https://youtu.be/qlJRg6w1-vo?si=xNshrkQDIx4NFK0j
Thomas E O’Neil (doubting)
Just so long as you alternative day dream believers are content to stick with your red weirdos and gooney birds I’ll not stand in your way. I’m feeling pretty smug sitting back with my very own f1r unsupported Samara winged seeds on the wall which you might well refer to as an hallucinative pareidolic condition that effects the aging; quite harmless though untreatable in my case thank goodness.
Diane,
I have read your ’30 days’ post and others. You raise some valid points.
In passing:
the ‘crocodile’ is more likely a poor representation of a western green lizard.
Patrick,
It’s a Komodo dragon for folio 73r with Octoesser, Latin I exist Wilfrid Voynich 31 stars Scorpio October 31 Birthday. Or if you are talking about Folio 25v, that’s mini dragon exhaling Supernova 1006 with the Roman Numeral MVI 1006 then O for October. The cipher picked up Bali where Komodo dragons once lived besides Komodo Island.
https://youtu.be/7yJs_Tk1HXs?si=8sYgFX3dJPyvAf8L
Diane & Patrick,
Actually f73r depicts a north node Scorpio centred within the Zodiac ring. It’s non descript form appears as a lizard or salamander with crocodile jaws to fool them’s not at all familiar with creepy crawlies. Truth be known its really just your plain old scorpion in clever disguise meant to confuse our sharp eyed scholars, tarrot card readers and Ninjas.
Patrick –
I see you weren’t about when that question was explored. I began (as usual) with a wide-horizon, comparative, history for an item (in this case first a historical outline for visions of the constellation, then comparative studies of how represented in the various parts of the Mediterranean world’. If that hadn’t produced viable matter, I’d have widened the search. Finally, the process of comparing, contrasting and weighing that evidence taking into account other sources such as other Voynich writings, folk-sayings and so on.
I don’t guess. I think research aimed only at supporting a fictional-speculative storyline is a waste of time in this sort of work (valuable as hypotheses are in other Voyich-related work) Bottom line: if you ask me to explain how I came to hold an opinion (if I do), you might be bored rigid but there will be reason and reason from evidence.
Patrick, …. that is: a reason for my conclusion determined from the evidence, whether or not it suits any theory or even some expectation of my own. I’m constantly surprised by what turns up. Why this work is still such a pleasure.
Tracy Van Buskirk
I omitted to mention that my buddy John Rogers was granted the brevet rank of General by a greatful nation for his extraordinary service to humanity above and beyond the call of duty. Never did he order me to call him Sir when chauffeuring him to various media venues around the eastern states and the capital. During a final farewell parade at Sydney’s HQ Victoria Barracks, we were able to expose a uniformed and bemedaled group claiming to be US Marine veterans who’d been posing as a fighting unit in ceremonial parades country wide for some time. Never his the papers.
Patrick,
Not to nag but here’s why it’s hardly likely meant for a lizard, though I did consider a few ‘lizard-like’ images from medieval Europe. First, the ‘lizard’ does’t explain the motif of a skull with a Greek-style traveller’s hat which is included in the Voynich emblem. Second, a lizard doesn’t have a ‘lash-ing’ tail. The constellation called lacerta (lizard) was invented by Helvetius – in 1687.. and is in a position quite different from our Scorpius.
Herodotus explains the name the Greeks used for the beast – and which we use – when he says the Egyptian word is champsai, but Greek-speaking Ionians compared crocodiles to something like gekkos -lizards that were found in stone walls. He doesn’t speak of any ‘lash-ing’ tail, or of lizards as messengers of death or posing any peril to the traveller… so no, the medieval German ‘lizard’ Scorpios are just ill-informed, as are the ‘dragon’ versions.
More relevant, if you turn to the Otranto mosaic, is its attempt to combine the crocodile (body, jaw, lashing tail), with the scorpion (six legs). It is only Aelianus, I think, who says ” I have myself heard that when a crocodile dies a scorpion is born from it; and they do say that it [the crocodile] has a sting in its tail which is full of poison.” No-one in southern Europe had to rely on hearsay about the scorpion’s tail!
I won’t go into the crocodile’s being envisioned crouching below the scales at the point of the soul’s crossing over (the point where the milky way touches the horizon), or the images of crocodiles as literally ‘bearers of the dead’ in parallel with Anubis or Hermes as their guide. That’s all Egyptian tradition, and few Voynicheros seem to know just how much reverence Europeans of the earlier medieval and early Renaissance felt for the actual or imagined ‘wisdom of Egypt’. Which reminds me – it’s about time I did another post about ‘no,…it’s not all pyramids’. 🙂 But November was the month of the dead and contained the feast of Catherine of Alexandria and so.. lots of reasons including how it looks… the Voynich ‘November beast’ is a crocodile as per examples in southern France and southern Italy before 1440AD.
Diane,
I’m not seeing a “motif of a skull with a Greek-style traveller’s hat which is included in the Voynich emblem”. Can you elaborate please?
I know about and respect your skills and extensive research. My own research in depth is currently into relevant aspects of paleography.
My holistic view of the VM is that it is very amateurish. The author may have seen a zodiac image of a crocodile and then, at home, drawn a ‘crocodile’ from memory but subconsciously being heavily influenced by having seen green lizards of a type common to his home area.
Diane: Supposing the four legged beast with lashing tail be a false lead inserted, to fool the all knowing intellectuals of the day, and that the underlying caption is not November (Novem Lat.) representing a Scorpio birth sign eg., at all, but a common Zodiac North Node bearing.indicator.
Patrick,
I can’t include the clip here, and since – so far as I can discover – I was the first to notice that detail and recognise its significance, here’s the illustration from one in the series of the posts investigating the problem from an analytical-critical approach. Beginning with asking and weighing evidence for or against such issues as ‘astrological or astrological’ etc. it moved through comparative iconography and historical and cultural context etc.etc. (the usual) and so took quite a few posts to summarise. The clip which shows the detail most clearly comes from the segment published on August 15th., 2022.
https://voynichrevisionist.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/beast-voynich-november-head-closeup.png
If the ‘png’ format is a problem for you, I can go back and replace it with a jpeg version.
John,
I find the most helpful method is to allow the drawing to direct me towards where, when, and for what sort of person a drawing was first enunciated, regardless of when later reproduced. The maxim is that meaning is context-dependent. So while it’s natural to search first in our own memory and ideas for ‘something like’, it tends to produce a less than optimum result, because taking that angle means we hunt for meaning rather than first establishing ‘meaning for whom, when, where?’ and worse still, it means unfamiliar style and details are slid past by the memory hunting for the recognisable. This last is a very natural, hard-wired habit in human beings, and very useful in everyday life, but counterproductive in iconographic analysis and research.
(Sorry to go all psych-eval about it, but that’s the fact).
If you pair wanted a better looking beasty for your Scorpion to agree with, couldn’t do better than any one of the many felidae cat varieties in the wild. some mit spots others have nots. Even closer to our f73r substitute arachnid scorpio version, there be a fairly close match both in size and physical proportions in the spotted tailed marsupial carnivore tiger quoll (dasyurus maculatus). It is only found in north west Tasmania and be closely related to the common taswegian devil. Doubting Thomas Neol will be heartened by the news that a Voynich lived in the wilds of north west Tasmania from memory. He died pennyless (so the police claim) and lived alone (but for his cat tiger) in his frugal bush cabin.
John sanders, Eva ‘y’ as in novem is a big deal with MS-408 according to Wilfrid Voynich. There is a novem glyph and it is more about April 30th 1006. Although I bet its also listed in November for Scorpio as novem with a macron with f73r. Only the new and gullible believe MS-408 is a early 15th century production unless there is a conspiracy. I think some academics in Voynich research are in cahoots with Yale maybe suppressing its’ decryption, because of some future sale.
I have shown the way with a low entropy solution and logical word puzzles backed up by a monoalphabetic cipher that was never thought of, because of the complexities. It utilizes Latin high to low letter frequency, with duplicate gallows combined to about 21 tokens. The few Latin words I found suits low entropy excluding the numbers which repeat that are not few. If you look carefully at Stellarium Web for April 30th 1006 at night you will see a waning moon often depicted in the MS-408. The star charts do show what depicts a supernova especially a dark image of an 8 pointed star for Venus on f70r2 which Venus but dark for the time of the supernova.
Nick and everyone here I cannot emphasize enough about how the MS-408 is forged and the content is about 1006. True MS-408 will never relate a complete message in a language unless we uncover a reading for a document that matches quire 20 in complete gematria with my cipher. I have tried and no success. There are bits of the document that fit gematria with the imagery and date on f68r3 for Pleiade, Tauri and Sun that also precisely match the folio which relate the time it was documented for. Yet MS-408 is a 20th century forge!
Nick you a said much 🙁
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https://youtu.be/6j0ZkGR8_M0?si=n-Cp0MrJsENSzN-V
….then of course should y’all still have any concerns re the spotted weirdo centre of the north node Zodiac ring and now more confused by Thomas Neil’s Komodo dragon, why not replace it with the slightly smaller Asian water monitor, it being more upright, as with our f73r specimen and includes both flank & tail spots, latter being long thick and capable of lashing out like our depiction. Whatsmore its range extends from Sri Lanka to mountainous regions of southern most Asia, Borneo the Chinese mainland and all points east of suez where Voynich was said by some, to have journeyed around 1890.
…by the old Moulmein pagoda lookin’ eastwards to the sea there’s a Burma girl a setting and I think she needs a pee, or an Asian water monitor a setting on her knee … Gits carried away at times sorry!
GMT @ 11/11/18. It be a most respectful reminder to all, that this is Armistice day, marking the end of hostilities in WW1 1918 with two minutes silence in memorium for those who fell 1914 to 1918 . Their names liveth forever more LEST WE FORGET