Voynich MS - Quire 8

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Folios in Quire 8

Quire 8 contains folios 57 through 66 (i.e. 10 instead of 8, but 6 are missing). The gathering mark is on f66v.

folio 57

Normal folio

f57r

Large plant. Two paras of slant writing, the second carefully avoiding the plant. Folio nr. (57) in upper right corner.

f57v

Cosmological picture. Central drawing featuring four 'persons' each holding something. Four labels radiating from centre and four labels near persons.
Four bands with circular text. Outside outermost is a 'start'-marking label. All bands have single characters nad signel words. Second ring from outside has four times reapeating sequence of single chars (cf. D'Imperio). Profuse occurrence of special chars.

folio 58

Normal folio

f58r

Text only in apparently three long paras. Star image near start of each para, with 6, 7, 8 points respectively. Folio nr. (58) in upper right corner.

f58v

Text only in apparently four paras. One six-pointed star near top of page. First para longest, with last line centered. All writing very neat.

folio 59

This folio is missing.

folio 60

This folio is missing.

folio 61

This folio is missing.

folio 62

This folio is missing.

folio 63

This folio is missing.

folio 64

This folio is missing.

folio 65

Normal folio

f65r

Enormous plant. Only two or three words of writing near the plant (label)
Folio nr (65) in upper right corner.

f65v

Big plant with small flowers and one larger trumpet-like flower. Two very short paras of text.

folio 66

Normal folio

f66r

Text only, in five or more paras, with several picnic tables. Left margin has column of words (leftmost) and column of single characters, again with special ones. At bottom picture of dying person accompanied by undetermined boxes, some Voynich words and 'der muszdel'. Folio nr (66) in upper right corner.

f66v

Plant with weird curling leaves, alternatingly black and white. Three paras of text above that. Unreadable signature in lower-left corner. Gathering mark in lower- right corner.
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