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Quire 20 contains folios 103 through 116. Folios 109 and 110 are missing. The gathering mark is on f103r. This gathering contains the complete 'recipes' section, so called because it has short paragraphs preceded by a star each, and each paragraph is possibly a recipe valid for one day of the year. Because (at least) one bifolio is missing, it is not certain whether there were indeed 365 paragraphs in total.
Text in short paragraphs with stars in left margin.
There are 19 stars and 54 text lines.
This folio has a gathering mark "20" in the lower left corner.
Text in short paragraphs with stars in left margin.
There are 14 or 15 stars and 46 text lines.
This page contains the famous lines of extraneous writing which
have inspired many researchers of the Voynich MS. At the very top edge there is
some writing in a tiny script. It can barely be made out. Below that, and in a
larger script, there are three lines in what appears to be a mixture of Latin,
German and Voynich script. It has been faithfully reproduced by
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IMAGE: Jorge Stolfi.
The alphabet used by the writer seems very similar
to the one presented at the following
IMAGE: 15th Century German alphabet table.
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