Voynich MS - Browser

Contents

This page presents thumbnail images of all pages in the MS. Clicking on any image takes you to a description of this page, with further links to the digital image collections. Below the thumbnails you will find an explanatory supplement to aid the interpretation of these pages, and also an acknowledgement of the very significant amount of work done by others, and reflected in these pages.

See also the layout of the MS for a complete overview in one page.

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Explanatory Supplement

Links

Links are provided throughout the page description tables as follows:

	To move to the previous or next quire
	To move to the previous or next folio
	To move to the previous or next page
	To move to the other (adjacent) page on the same side of the same bifolio (crossing the binding)

Description entries

Each page is described under a number of categories, as follows:

General description

This section provides a general description of the page, indicating the type of illustration and any other noteworthy features of the page.

Illustration(s)

This section describes the illustrations in more detail. Speculative comments are mostly avoided in this section.

Specifically included are proposed matches between herbal pages and items in the pharmaceutical pages.

Still under work is the inclusion of the A/B classification of herbal illustrations according to Koen Gheuens and Cary Rapaport. In order to avoid confusion with Currier's languages, we will use Greek α for plants with properties that mostly fit with pages in Currier-A and and β for plants with properties that mostly fit with pages in Currier-B. This is explained in more detail here.

Text

This section describes all relevant features of the text on this page, including:

• The number and type of text items ('loci') according to the definitions used in the IVTFF transliteration file format (see here).
• Additional comments about the text layout, and any non-Voynich writing.
• Identification of Currier language, strictly according to Currier's own work. A hyphen indicates that Currier did not make any classification. Currier's definition of languages (and hands) are described in the transcript of his presentation.
• Identification of the "RZ language (and dialect), for which see here.
• Identification of the scribal hand, according to Lisa Fagin Davis ('LFD hand').
• a link to the interlinear transcription file version 1.6 prepared by Stolfi (with major inputs from others, see the acknowledgment)

Tentative identifications

This includes tentative identifications of items on the page. For the plant/herb illustrations, these often derive from 'ELV' (Ethel Voynich) or 'ThP' (Theodore Petersen, from his hand transcsription of the MS).

Other information

This section may include other noteworthy points or hypotheses about the page.

Acknowledgements

The Voynich MS is preserved in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library of Yale University. Illustrations of the digital scans of the Voynich MS are presented with the kind permission of the library.

An important source has been the interlinear transcription of the Voynich MS, annotated by Jorge Stolfi. This again includes significant contributions from Takeshi Takahashi, Jim Reeds, Gabriel Landini, John Grove and many others.

See also the general acknowledgments for this site.