Folio 83v – Grenades & Thunderclap Bomb

March 10th, 2025

The Thunderclap Bomb, the first hand grenade designed in the 12th century was so awful that it was eventually deemed illegal to use. However, the authors of the VM go to great lengths to hide it and how to use it. Thankfully, they don’t tell us how to make it because if they had, I would sugarcoat the translation and lie. Nothing to see here folks, nothing at all. Even the authors warn us that this page is strictly confidential but within their God-given right to use it. This translation is simply about how to fling a hand grenade and run away.

“The History of Jin describes the bombs thus: “The heaven-shaking-thunder bomb is an iron vessel filled with gunpowder. When lighted with fire and shot off, it goes off like a crash of thunder that can be heard for a hundred li [thirty miles], burning an expanse of land more than half a mu [所爇圍半畝之上, a mu is a sixth of an acre], and the fire can even penetrate iron armor.” A Ming official named He Mengchuan would encounter an old cache of these bombs three centuries later in the Xi’an area: “When I went on official business to Shaanxi Province, I saw on top of Xi’an’s city walls an old stockpile of iron bombs. They were called ‘heaven-shaking-thunder’ bombs, and they were like an enclosed rice bowl with a hole at the top, just big enough to put your finger in. … When the powder goes off, the bomb rips open, and the iron pieces fly in all directions. That is how it is able to kill people and horses from far away.” – Wikipedia.

To light the Thunder clap Bomb the authors of the VM are using a military style powder horn.

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TRANSLATIONS:

English Translation:
Thunderclap bomb synchronized to forces out, tepidly exhausted and congeals the mark. The water-seesaw mentions the observation mark, it has been thrown the mark of the Thrower. Obey Instructions! It has been thrown and congeals by means of the confirmed. It is stopping the forecourt. The grids survey vane mark congeals. You get the projecting end of the radius mark of the L shaped tool. The sun error mechanical rack (gear lash) conic secant you are congealing what you had thrown. The Thrower method has knowledge: you are projecting out the mark stopping the lead and way measurement; I should go the mark; what you had thrown towards the lead is diligent. Remove the lead journey it travels, move away from the eddy mark, it gets the lead. You are projecting out the Monster Waves. The L shaped tool “The Thrower” lead secant arc grid, you are projecting out the entire lead. What you had thrown you are projecting out like a weapons blast. You get, I am hoping produces truly to hold steady. 

To draw its energies it gets mighty. Additional uses: it has been thrown (hand grenade). You will instruct the mark to get, it ivies the measurement velocity enclosure and hunts going out by splitting open. What you had thrown discharges. The vice (weapons law) is attained knowledge and has by means per holy right. Having been flung you are projecting out the lead. The lead measurement outer region orifice plate North. The collineation map repels battle, it has the mark. IT IS CONFIDENTIAL AND HIDDEN! Having cast it down the yield you had gotten is a cesspool, they are stopping the yield. The way Monster Waves yield the grids sounding vane. You are projecting out the track knowledge measurement. You are projecting out and thrusting Monster Waves. Track the Monster Waves. You get the lead helm. Your go attained quadrilateral, you get the stake you had gotten the lead isthmus graph. You are projecting out the radius, your go ties to what you had thrown in the area. I am hoping it produces the lead. What you had thrown two degrees/twofold. IT IS CONFIDENTIAL MARITIME LAW. What you had thrown you are projecting out I am hoping produces the edges way out. Two degrees(2°) next to the information orifice plate observation. Traveling, your go actions are projecting out the spouted container quadrilateral. 

What you had thrown you get a twisting stake and vanes the observation mark. The hour gets carried and determines what you are projecting out. The orifice plate air/gases have 360°, you thrust out the stake, you get the velocity enclosure eye-level, you go the lead. What you had thrown attained the grids sighting marks, they are moving horizontal distance way. The heliotrope sundial origin produces the grids mark protrudingly. The journey border wat gets the mark attained of its speed. The water wave mark you get the veins sighted to have a marked lead. To have possession of attained you go the ways you go quadrilateral mark by way of the ruler energy grid. The variation secant arc you get the lead you are projecting out, remove the lead. The watercourse cosmos, to have you are projecting out the lead. You must stop to have the eternity forces per what you are projecting out. The stake way Katabatic wind information is an eternal force. 

(Inscription near women:)
a) visual opening. b) productive. c) additional uses. d) I am hoping it discharges.

Voynichees:
Peisota soiei elisa ulcer epuisa jeloi visa uipuisa epuia
Sei visa jetisa visa jelisor uiulisa jetisa jeloi uia sor
Jelon uula soi eitisa visa jeloisa jetom socr visa elya
Son vysa elyesa soisa jelisa jetysa jetisor vieisa jei eia
Jetoi visa jelon uisa uisei som elom visa jetysa eton
Uisa jelosa eloi visa rei ui oid etiei visa jetei uisa jetoi
Jetya elya jetoiei uisa sa soi jetoi eiluisa jetysa jetoi
Reitysa jetom etom uis etuia

Puisor visoi jetor visoi || etusa jetisa etoci visa jeta ivis
Som vula jeye iisor uya jeoi jetysa eitor vysa jeton eiei
Jei uia je iuis jeita jetoi uisa uisa som uutia uier oi ioi
Roiuis jei visa jeiuisa jeiusa jei ruisa uiei jetior veisa
Jelom uiei via jetya uiei soi uom eitysa jetoi uoi eia
Som jetoi viutia jetya uoi jetya jetom uisa ror ei
Jeton uyoi jetom viei jetior uysa eiuya jetoi jetoia
R ei tisa jetysa rom etom uisa jetysa jeitysa
Jeuisa jeilsa jetysa jetoi etom uior uiuta jeitysa
Le ulia uier eiei ui ei lisa uutoi vyula uioi

Jetys jetom vieiton viei eitysa i visa
Uor jetor uieiton vutia jetoi uier eir
Jei occn uutisa viei jetom vula iuia
Ei uysa jetysa jeton soi voi visa ier
A via elius or etoi soi visa jetoia
Rei uior via jetor visa jeton eiiua
S uiei visa jetom uyta ieid
Jei vei uysa jei eje jeton ei vioh
Ei uioi visa uia loi visoi soi vsa
Jetom uisa jetoi eloi uisa jeloid
Ea via jei jetoi uisa jela
Jei eion vioi je jetoi viei
Via epuia ulia eiua

(women’s inscriptions) A: eieiora B: etoirua C: etusa D: etom

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