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Voynich chicken scratches…

Posted by nickpelling on Jul 20th, 2010 - 13 comments.
As a Voynich Manuscript marginalia cognoscente, I'm always alert for new angles on the various incidental marks apparently added by its later owners. So, when Tim Tattrie left a comment about the "chicken scratch" marginalia on my recent Voynich-frontiers-circa-2010 post, I thought it was probably time to revisit them here. Tim's query was whether anyone had pursued the initials scribbled ...

Spanish Voynich theory…

Posted by nickpelling on Jul 17th, 2008.
Another day, another Voynich theory to add to the list of theories. Today's one (courtesy of Rolando Hernandez Rivero) proposes that the VMs is written in old Spanish, though with some Latin and English words thrown into the mix. Rolando also asserts that [what he calls] Hand 1 is "scatterbrained" and has many errors, while [what he calls] ...