Re: VMs: Re: The VMS "alphabet" and some other issues...

["Larry Roux" <lroux@xxxxxxx>]

Thanks for checking those, Robert.  I also live by Allen's "Star Names".
 What a great book that would only have been better with included
charts...

You will want to look at F49v

I believe the characters on the left are numbers. They have a different
5 than you, but otherwise exactly the same. 

note that 6 is r (2) with an e (4) swish (2+4 = 6)

8 is basically o (1) with a 7 swish

7 is 3 + 4 

f49v too.




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Larry Roux
Syracuse University
lroux@xxxxxxx
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>>> rteague@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 02/03/03 18:23 PM >>>
Larry wrote:

> 1) A few words are in plain alpha substitution (Or something like it).
> These words do not fit the "alpha order" sequence at all.  See the
word
> for Aldebaran (d ch o l d a r) on f68r3. I have been able to find at
> least 3 star names appropriate to the picture using this method so far
> (d=al ch = de o=b l=r d=al a=a r=n and e=c).  However, most of the
other
> words come out garbage.  However, there are very few Voynich rules
which
> fall out of the rule.  Perhaps those words actually numbers...

Two more bits of evidence:

I decided to look for the name Brahe on f67v1, using those
letter values you give above. That would be EVA <ola_ _>

The first word of the short line (four letters/five letters) to the left
of
the head
fits with <olar>.  So <r>, besides having a number value of 2,  may also
represent
h.

I also applied the above to the word beside the Pleaides; EVA <doaro>.
This
is al-bahb. The closest word in Star Names is "Baba", the Russian name,
meaning
"Old Wife".

Robert

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