Re: VMs: michiton oladabas explained

["Philip Neal" <philipneal_vms@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

It's an ingenious idea but I think it is coincidence.

1. Czech of the relevant period was not written with accents:
see 
http://dewey.library.upenn.edu/sceti/ljs/PageLevel/index.cfm?ManID=ljs382&Page=52

2. The lines in question have the rhythm of Latin hexameters
_.. _.. _ | _ _.. _.. __
They are very bad Latin but to my mind plainly meant to be Latin.
For what it is worth, I think michiton should be read as anthicon,
flowery.

The last page of a manuscript often contains meaningless jingles of
just this kind: they are known as pen trials. See my page

http://mysite.freeserve.com/philipneal_vms/marginalia.html

Philip Neal






> First, I have a tentative explanation of "michiton oladabas".
> If you read it backwards (treating ch as one letter,
> as it is treated in Chech orthography), you will read
> "sa badalo No Tichim". My limited knowledge of Czech
> lets me read it as "was studied by No Tichy".
>
> Moreover, if you look closely at
> http://www.dcc.unicamp.br/~stolfi/voynich/98-11-07-f116-redrawn/
> you will notice accents above a and i,
> so the sentence is in fact "sa b'adalo No Tich'im".
> If some Czechs are subscribed to the list,
> please confirm or deny my belief that
> the accents in the sentence are placed
> according to the rules of Czech, and
> the Tich'ym/Tich'im variation is irrelevant.


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