Re: VMs: Finding_02

["Philip Neal" <philipneal_vms@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> --- Jorge Aveleira <jorvms@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > I am strongly convinced
> > that folio 86 holds a notable significance to the
> > VMS as a whole.
>
> I would tend to agree. You may be interested to
> know that the author of the most consulted standard
> book about the Voynich MS: Mary D'Imperio, is
> also of the same opinion.

I find f 86v3 of interest because of the arrangement of the text on the 
page.
The page is of normal proportions, (i.e. taller than it is wide), and has 
four blocks
of writing around the edge so that you have to rotate the page to read it -
like the writing on a Monopoly board.

The four blocks of writing contain about the same number of words, but the
north and south blocks consist of eight short lines the same width as the 
page and
the east and west blocks consist of six long lines the same length as the 
page.
I would speculate that the page was copied from an original page which had
square proportions.

Philip Neal

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