Re: Oh no, it's Voynich again
"Farley P. Katz" <[email protected]> Wed, 11 Dec 2019 18:45:11 -0600
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More Voynich baloney. See
https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=3Dhttps%3A%2F%2Fen.wiki=
pedia.org%2Fwiki%2FVoynich_manuscript%23Gerard_Cheshire&data=3D02%7C01%=
7CCLASSICS-L%40lsv.uky.edu%7C8d48e9d458ed40ae11eb08d77e9c9371%7C2b30530b69b=
64457b818481cb53d42ae%7C0%7C0%7C637117083264289283&sdata=3DPkdZ8Aw2hW8N=
ZmhQHQSBTCFDKzPZLImEMSkggP9IJSk%3D&reserved=3D0 ("The
University of Bristol ... removed a reference to Cheshire's claims from its
website, referring in a statement to concerns about the validity of the
research, and stating: "This research was entirely the author's own work
and is not affiliated with the University of Bristol, the School of Arts
nor the Centre for Medieval Studies" ")
On Wed, Dec 11, 2019 at 2:34 PM Ralph Hancock <[email protected]>
wrote:
> Reposted from the Ancient Food Technology list. The vaguely Romance
> language in which the text is said to be is a wild mishmash of terms from
> everywhere, but the suggested translations have some consistency -- which
> may be the product of wishful thinking. You need to click on the 'PDF' li=
nk
> in the page to see the actual paper.
>
> RH
>
> ----------
>
> Ever since the publication of journal article *The Language and Writing
> System of Manuscript MS408 Explained*, we have been busy translating the
> plant pages in order to construct the lexicon for the manuscript. They al=
l
> relate to matters of female reproduction and the complications that can
> arise, so the plants are used for various foods and medicines,
>
> In the latest paper the plant is used as a form of magic '=C3=A6a' for th=
e
> purpose of rectifying the damage done by the extreme physical manipulatio=
n
> '=C3=A6ora' described in the previous paper. So, the manuscript does cont=
ain
> some magic after all. :0)
>
> Here is the link to Plant Series, No. 5:
>
> https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=3Dhttps%3A%2F%2Fling.=
auf.net%2Flingbuzz%2F004917&data=3D02%7C01%7CCLASSICS-L%40lsv.uky.edu%7=
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> Please spread the word far and wide.
> Kindest regards,
> Gerard.
>
> Dr. Gerard Cheshire.
> Research Associate.
> University of Bristol.
>
> https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=3Dhttps%3A%2F%2Fbrist=
ol.academia.edu%2FGerardCheshire&data=3D02%7C01%7CCLASSICS-L%40lsv.uky.=
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