The most important source that one should study very very closely to understanding the Voynich Manuscript (VM) is the Catalan Atlas, it’s symbology and the mirror images the VM uses within the plant systems and the kalendorium/star chart sections. It’s ground break invention and how the VM uses this invention in disguise.
The second greatest source is studying the history of the creation of numbers and how numbers are presented in different systems, it is important to note those type of systems that are used in the VM. Most important number systems to be aware of are geospatial markers in the plants, hand gestures by the ladies, and a mathematical system by the Guanche people in the Kalendorium/Volvelle section.
The third most important source to study is how Templars and others where able to cross the Atlantic long before Columbus. In these documents there are lies and truths, some lies are riddles (as I’ve noticed in the VM), some lies hide the real truth, (example is when the Catalan Atlas describes an island full of 10 foot cannibals’ when in fact it was a major resource in merchant trade and inhabited by friendly 5 foot tall islanders.)
I do a lot of research so I am sure to miss something but this list will get updated as research progresses. And of course one must study World History and it’s events before and after how it effected languages and most specifically English, Scottish(Galwegian), French/Norman, and Dutch(Old Frisian) and how they all formed Anglo-Norman. Anglo-Norman has been noted in Latin characters in the VM so saying that it’s in Anglo-Norman should be no surprise. Anglo-Norman was spoken by the Elite in England, Scotland and Ireland and was a significant contributor to Middle English; used in English law until c. 17th century along side: Latin, Middle English, and French.
- The Catalan Atlas Project: http://www.cresquesproject.net/catalan-atlas-legends
- Book: The Universal History of Numbers by Georges Ifrah
- Book: A Cultural History of Numbers by Karl Menninger
- Book: The Skull Wars by David Hurst Thomas
- Book: The RA Expeditions by Thor Heyerdahl
- Book: 1434 The Year a Magnificent Chinese Fleet Sailed to Italy and Ignited the Renaissance by Gavin Menzies (personal note: there are a lot of false facts in the book so one must read with a scholarly view.)
- All Things Geoffrey Chaucer: https://chaucer.fas.harvard.edu/
- Translation of Roman de la Rose, possibly extant as The Romaunt of the Rose
- The Book of the Duchess
- The House of Fame
- Anelida and Arcite
- Parlement of Foules
- Translation of Boethius’ Consolation of Philosophy as Boece
- Troilus and Criseyde
- The Legend of Good Women
- The Canterbury Tales
- A Treatise on the Astrolabe: https://www.academia.edu/748317/Geoffrey_Chaucers_Treatise_on_the_Astrolabe https://astrolabeproject.com/downloads/Astrolabe_the_Missing_Manual.pdf
- Book: The Palgrave Literary Dictionary of Chaucer by Malcolm Andrew
- All Things Nicholas Flamel
- Decoding the Past: The Real Sorcerer’s Stone, November 15, 2006, History Channel video documentary
- Book: Nicolas Flamel. His Exposition of the Hieroglyphicall Figures (1624). by – Dixon, Laurinda
- https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/the-hieroglyphical-figures-of-nicholas-flammel-explained-sir-isaac-newton/TgGV9KAV1VIRlA
- Book: The Language of Sailing, Chicago, Ill.; Manchester, by Richard Mayne
- https://schoenberginstitute.org/kalendarium/
- https://museum.wales/blog/2044/Volvelles-early-paper-calculators/
- https://blogs.getty.edu/iris/decoding-the-medieval-volvelle/
- Christopher Columbus’ First Voyage Journal http://web.as.uky.edu/history/faculty/myrup/his206/Columbus%20-%20Journal%20of%20the%20First%20Voyage.pdf (when reading this note how many lies he tells, why and where – this is very important to the VM.)
- https://www.kirkcudbrighthistorysociety.org.uk/tag/shipping/
- Book: Kirkcudbright Shipping 1300-2005 by David R. Collin (very important) https://www.abebooks.com/first-edition/Kirkcudbright-Shipping-1300-2005-Collin-David-R/14573559949/bd
- Book: Language and Culture in Medieval Britain: The French of England, c.1100-c.1500; Edited by Jocelyn Wogan-Browne https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7722/j.ctt81zsz
- Dictionary: MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007
- Dictionary: OED Online, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1901
- Dictionary: 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary
- Dictionary: The 5,000 Dictionary Chinese to English by H. Fenn
- Dictionary: Mozley & Whiteley’s Law Dictionary by Er Hardy Ivamy
- Dictionary: The Classic Latin Dictionary by Follett
- Dictionary: Catalan Dictionary and phrase book by A Scott Britton (modern Catalan only good as a reference not good for translations.)
- Dictionary: NTC’s Hungarian and English Dictionary by Tamas Magay
- Dictionary: Online Etymology Dictionary https://www.etymonline.com/
- English Law Handwriting: http://sites.rootsweb.com/~oel/handwriting.html
- Goods World Atlas by Rand McNally
- Book: Merchants of Innovation: The Languages of Traders, by E. Wagner https://www.gbv.de/dms/zbw/835683028.pdf
- Book: Remote Sensing and Image Interpretation by Thomas M. Lillesand
- Book: Manual of Remote Sensing Volume I & II by American Society of Photogrammetry
- Book: The Reckoning of Time by Bede
- Book: The Seaman Secret’s by John Davis
- Book: Fluid Dynamics in Astrophysics and Geophysics Vol. 20, Lectures in Applied Mathematics by AMS (not for the faint of heart!)
- Book: Introduction to Probability and Statistics by B. W. Lindgren
- Book: Chaos making a new Science by James Gleick
- Book: The Templar Meridians the Secret Mapping of the New World by William F. Mann
- Book: Calculus and Analytic Geometry Part I & II, by George B Thomas Jr.
- Book: Surveying Practice by Phillip Kissam
- Book: Geodesy by Davis & Foote
- Book: Principals of Physics by F. Bueche
- Book: De computo vel loquela digitorum by Bede
- Sundials in the Byzantine era at the Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg
- Book: Summa de Arithmetica, Geometrica, Proportioni e proportiona by Pacioli
- Satellite Data from: NASA – LANDSAT, NASA – BROS, European Remote Sensing
- Book: Crossing the Atlantic Ice by Stanley & Bradly
- Legal Document: Magna Carta https://www.archives.gov/files/press/press-kits/magna-carta/magna-carta-translation.pdf
- Legal Document: Hammurabi Code of Laws https://avalon.law.yale.edu/ancient/hamframe.asp
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