Re: Voynich

[Dennis <ixohoxi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

	Welcome!  

olivier.dubont@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> 
> There is names inside the manuscript : name of body parts (heart ...), name
> of planets (sun,mars...), name of plants (angelica archangelica...) but
> they are substitued with a short word, like in Alchemic manuscripts, the
> name are crypted with symbols (symbol of sun, of quicksilver...)

	A short word for the sun, the heart, a plant name?  I
know that alchemy used symbols to represent chemicals,
but I hadn't heard of using short words.  Would you
elaborate?

> I think Vouynich manuscript is a spagyrik book. Spagyri is like Alchemy
> but with plants.

	I looked at a spagyric book but it was modern.  Would
spagyry have existed in the 1400's?   If so, do you
have references?

Dennis