Re: VMs: The "key" f116v.1-2: a Latin Prayer to Virgin Mary

[mesinik@xxxxxx]

Quoting Elmar Vogt <elvogt@xxxxxxx>:

> 
> 
> G. Damschen wrote:
> 
> > The "key" f116v.1-2: a Latin Prayer to Mary
> > 
> > This is an addendum to my earlier note on folio 116v.1-2 from 3 September
> 2005.
> > 
> > If we read line 1 as I did the day before yesterday ("archicon ola dabas.")
> and if we read the sign in line 2 behind "si", "mari", "mori" and "vi" as "s"
> (as Jorge Stolfi rightly proposed in an email from 13 April 1999) we get:
> > 
> > f116v.1:   + árchicon óla dabás / + multás / + #e + cárcere + pórtas +

I have not a lot of time to think about the restright now, but I still vote for
the reading:
"mithiton (maybe michiton) oladabas"
for these 2 first words,
(or somethiin like that, whatever could it mean...)

> > f116v.2:   sis + maris + moris + vis + apta + ma+ria +
> > 
> > Now I think it is quite obvious that this is nothing but a Latin prayer to
> the Virgin Mary: In Medieval theology Mary is called the vessel ("vas",
> sometimes "aula", "templum") which gives birth to the Ruler ("archikos"),
> i.e. Christ. By that, she also gives us many doors out of the prison (the
> body?, the Underworld?) ([#]"e carcere") to Heaven, she is called "door to
> the Heavens" ("porta celi"). She is the force or essence ("vis") of man
> ("maris" from "mas") or of sea ("maris" from "mare", cf. Mary as "stella
> maris") and the force of moral ("moris" from "mos"), the neat Mary ("apta
> Maria"). 
> > 
> > Translation:
> > 
> > f116v.1:   + You, vessel, gave the Ruler and many doors out of the prison.
> 
> > f116v.2:   May you be the power of man and moral, neat Mary. +
> > 
> > Conclusion:
> > The so-called "key" to the Voynich manuscript (VMS f116v.1-2) is a prayer
> to the Virgin Mary in clear Medieval Latin. This prayer reflects Mary's role
> as mother of Christ and as Porta celi. It is bound by metre (line 1 is a
> hexameter; line 2 has a somewhat metrical structure  -- though it is no
> pentameter). There is absolutely no indication that these lines contain any
> cryptological key, null-letters or mess. Newbold's and Brumbaugh's readings
> were misleading. Furthermore, there seems to be a connection between the word
> "archicon" in line 1 and the words "oror.sheey" in line 3: "archicon"
> probably is a 'translation' of "or.sheey" (see my last mail).
> > 
> > P.S.: Just a guess: If we assume the woman left to the lines on f116v is
> Virgin Mary, then the animal above her could be a lamb and the thing above it
> a vessel?
> > 
> > Any comments?
> > 
> 
> Hello Gregor,
> 
> I very much appreciated your sophisticated and thorough examination, but, 
> honestly, I don't really buy the solution.
> 
> I have issues with the handwriting as detected by you: You have consistenly
> 
> translated the "8" shape in the first line as "s", whereas in the second 
> line it's "x" which turns into "s". Why would the author use two different 
> shapes?
> 
> To me, the claimed "r" in "archicon" appears to be the exact shape as the 
> "u" in "multas" -- and both look more like an "n" to me.
> 
> At best, the author wrote "abta", not "apta", IMHO.
> 
> I'd be willing to accept this, though, if the prayer would make sense in the
> 
> overall context of the VM:
> 
> But, first of all, we have the "pontifer" line at the very top of the page,
> 
> and the VM code and "so nim gas mich" directly underneath, which fail to fit
> 
> into the picture of the prayer. Furthermore, by assuming that the figure to
> 
> the left is the Virgin Mary, you assume that the notes on f116v were written
> 
> by the VM author(s), ie are not an independent text by a later owner.
> 
> Now, this would be very odd -- the VM is characterized by the absence of 
> Christian iconography, so ending this book with a latin prayer (in plain 
> text, rather than cipher!) is jarringly different. Likewise, depicting the 
> Virgin Mary *naked* and without any attributes of her rank is even more 
> weird. (One could say that she is "disguised" as a part of the VM encoding,
> 
> but that wouldn't make sense with a Christian prayer identifying her right 
> next to it.)
> 
> So, I wouldn't really place my money on a bet for your solution, but I'd be
> 
> happy to be proven wrong.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> 	Elmar
> 
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