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This news led me to finally have a look at the manuscript, there are some very curious details in the text.

First you should get the PDF copy from http://brbl-dl.library.yale.edu/pdfgen/exportPDF.php?bibid=2...

The page numbering used below is taken from the Yale PDF.

* On page 49v in the left margin, you can clearly read "1 2 3 4 5", suggesting again to me that the writer had previous knowledge of other languages. The same page has more arabic number series in the left margin of the page, "0 2 9" repeats, and "8 9" occurs (read top-down). I may be confused by the apperance of the symbols. However the "1 2 3 4 5" sequence is a extremely unlikely coincidence.

* These numbers in the left margin can be seen on several other pages, such as 54v. Again, i may be confused by the appearance of the symbols. However the more i look at it, it does look like a code.

* On 57v, we can see what appears to be an alphabet sequence in the circles. The sequence is mirrored on the other part of the same circle in the second circle counted from the outside.

* Page 66r again has a left-column top-down list of symbols, what looks like a encryption key of sorts.

Many clues in the document makes me believe it is unlikely to orginate from america, such as crossbowmen, castles and bath houses.

I published a longer write up on my blog, at http://martinlindhe.blogspot.se/2014/02/the-other-day-news-b...



If I remember correctly from earlier discussions about this script, these numbers were written much later by some other owners to keep track of the ordering.


There are page numbering on every 2 pages in the top right/left corner.

But I am not referring to these numbers.

Here is the "12345" sequence on 49v: http://www.jasondavies.com/voynich/#f49v/0.5/0.5/2.50 (top left corner, read top-to-bottom)

Here is the "alphabet sequence", on 57v: http://www.jasondavies.com/voynich/#f57v/0.5/0.5/2.50

at least the second & third from outside circles have repeating patterns of symbols. It looks a bit like a substitiution code key to me.

For reference, the page numbering you mentioned can be seen here, "57" in top right corner: http://www.jasondavies.com/voynich/#f57r/0.5/0.344/2.50

However I have not managed to look through much at all of previous research on this document. Just sharing my thougts.


Well, since the script seems to be influenced by Arabic writings, authors should have known Arabic numbering too. But it's not clear if these are original writings, as you said, we should look into previous research.




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