Voynich MS - Quire 20

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Folios in Quire 20

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.


folio 103

Normal folio. The folio nr. is on f103r.

f103r

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.

f103v

Text in short paragraphs with stars in left margin.
There are 14 or 15 stars and 46 text lines.


folio 104

Normal folio.

f104r

f104v


folio 105

Normal folio.

f105r

f105v


folio 106

Normal folio.

f106r

f106v


folio 107

Normal folio.

f107r

f107v


folio 108

Normal folio.

f108r

f108v


folio 109

This folio is missing

folio 110

This folio is missing

folio 111

Normal folio.

f111r

f111v


folio 112

Normal folio.

f112r

f112v


folio 113

Normal folio.

f113r

f113v


folio 114

Normal folio.

f114r

f114v


folio 115

Normal folio.

f115r

f115v


folio 116

Normal folio.

f116r

f116v

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 >> 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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