RE: VMs: f1r symbols - wild idea?

[Nick Pelling <incoming@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi everyone,

At 00:08 08/07/2003 -0700, Rene Zandbergen wrote:
> If the Voynich MS is derived from an Arabic MS,
> then the first word (Eva: fachys or fyays) should
> be 'kitab', with a high probability.
> Note that this word does not appear in the VMs
> a second time.

To my eyes, the ornate "f" looks like it marks a top-line key (which I read 
as "f-[y-ch-y-s  y-k-al ar]), so my guess is that the actual first word is 
probably encoded by some (or all) of "y-t-aiin sh-ol sh-or-y", which 
follows it.

Alternatively, there's a long gallows at the start of the fourth para 
(cph-[o-sh-aiin sh-ok-ch-ee-y]), and so a key could be there instead. My 
own instinct is that each of the four paras have their own key - that the 
author was worried about someone cracking his system from the first page. 
Perhaps this means that the contents of the first page are quite 
predictable? :-o

> Hi Nick. Could you please define: 'Works' ?
> Just kidding. If you've got the MS solved you would
> tell us, wouldn't you :-)

Depends what you mean by "solved". :-)  Much like GC, it may well be that I 
have it "solved" but not "cracked". :-o  Who knows?

Cheers, .....Nick Pelling..... 


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