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Ken,
I'll
let others provide more detail about the descriptions, but I just wanted to
throw in that the term "antidotary" is one I've been using to describe the
"recipes" section, folios that contain parts of plants, jars, and apparent
descriptions of mixtures. I use the term "antidotary" because that is the
pharmacological term used to describe these formulations in the 15/th/16th
century, and most books that contained this type of information were called
"antidotaries". I'm a bit of an oddball,
using 'glyph', 'antidotary', and other words that are rather new to
Voynichiana. Sorry, but some are too broad and less definitive, and
lack the meaning they held some years ago, like 'hands', 'language',
'character', etc. The term "recipe" is about as broad as they come, while
"antidotary" is specific to the time frame and the apparent subject
matter.
GC
Can someone post the terms used to describe the
distinct thematic sections in the VMS as they are referred to on this
list? Herbal, I figure is used to describe f1v through f57r with
various others. Or is that Botanical? What about the "Medicinal"
section at the end (f88 and f89, f99 through f102)? Also, is there a
single term for all the non zodiacal astrological/pendants (ie.,f67 -
f70, some f86 and f85 pages, etc.)? I just want to have my lingo
correct.
Ken
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Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2003 11:31
AM
Subject: Re: VMs: More Voynich Jargon
added...
Hi everyone,
I think I've finally got rid of the
annoying PHP error-messages on the
Voynich PhikiWiki, so everything
should be fine now. I've added yet more
definitions, so it's starting to
get a little bit unwieldy... I think I'll
just let it grow for the
moment, & see where it leads.
http://www.voynich.info/vmswiki/phiki.php?VoynichJargon
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