Comments on: Por le bon Simon Sint… what?

By: nickpelling

nickpelling — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 09:16:54 +0000

Too many possibilities, too few probabilities: it’s The Voynich Way. *sigh*

By: Vytautas

Vytautas — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 08:45:53 +0000

IMHO in first word i can read ancient greek letter “gama” and word sounds in German: “gotleben” … Too many possibilities for reading

By: Blog for the Illiterate? « Thoughts about the Voynich Manuscript

Blog for the Illiterate? « Thoughts about the Voynich Manuscript — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 08:42:43 +0000

[...] The funny thing is that not even the latin letters in the VM can be read — or, to be more accurate, they can be read, but they don’t seem to make sense. On f116v people haven’t come up with much better than “Anchiton oladabas” (whatever that’s supposed to mean…) or arcane references to an Eighties’ synth pop band … [...]

By: nickpelling

nickpelling — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 15:13:46 +0000

Hi Elmar,

Well, let’s look at the primary evidence:-

fachys.ykal.ar.ataiin.shol.shory.cth!res.y.kor.sholdy!-
See them walking hand in hand across the bridge at midnight

sory.ckhar.o!r.y.kair.chtaiin.shar.are.cthar.cthar.dan!-
Heads turning as the lights flashing out it’s so bright

OK, though it’s far from a brilliant match, I must confess to having been shown worse Voynich theories.

Cheers, ….Nick Pelling….

By: Elmar

Elmar — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 11:54:16 +0000

Nick,

I still think the VM’s a Duran Duran songbook, perhaps with a real weird tabulature… for lute or harp? (IIRC the guitar as we know it nowadays had not yet been invented, so this might account for that.)

But if there’s a copyright notice related to Simon le Bon… that’s compelling.

Elmar

By: Emily

Emily — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 22:08:53 +0000

With a little imagination, I can read the “sintpeter” as “Lucifer”, although the initial L looks oddly shaped and smudged.