Month names in the Voynich zodiac pages
A well-known oddity about the Voynich manuscript (among so many others) is the set of month names in the centre of the zodiac pages which were obviously added after the main manuscript was completed 롯데카드 다운로드. Here is the one on the Pisces page, which seems to say ‘mars’, meaning March 윈도우 언어 팩 다운로드.
Elmar Vogt [correction: the part on zodiac names was written by Elias Schwerdtfeger] offers an interesting and detailed discussion at the end of the document which you can find here forticlient. (The rest of the document, on marginalia, by Elmar Vogt, is also interesting.) He [Elias] suggests that the month names are to be read as:
- mars
- aberil
- may, mayˆ
- yony, yong, yonij (?)
- jolliz (?)
- augst
- sepembr, septembr (?)
- octembre
- novembre
- decebre
He doesn’t, however, make any suggestions about where they might come from Download the audio tag. They look like a sort of French. Some less cautious commentators have boldly declared them to be Occitan (i.e from the south of France). Others have been rather more careful and critical – see this interesting discussion which guardedly suggests a northern French origin 포켓몬스터 화이트 다운로드.
I have been looking at an interesting book called “The Ciphers of the Monks: A Forgotten Number-notation of the Middle Ages” by David A Cocera download. King, which discusses a 14th century astrolabe from Picardy, northern France. The month names on the astrolabe, as you can see here, are in some cases similar to the VM names, including ‘may’ and ‘octembre’ 카툰 워즈 버그 판 apk 다운로드. Not all are the same, but many are. Another astrolabe referenced in a footnote has ‘may, jong, ..octembre’.
But perhaps more significant are King’s considered words, which should warn all of us not to be too dogmatic or brash in identifying any particular French dialect as the source of the added Voynich month names:
“we do not know enough about medieval French month-names to associate them with a specific region” (p138-9, footnote) 퀘이크4 다운로드.
Exactly so. In other words, as so often with the VM, be cautious, not bullish with your claims!
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