Executive Director, @medievalacademy; @simmonsslis prof; paleographer, codicologist, manuscript blogger; PhD; @brownuniversity @Yale alum
Tacitly editing images of fragments seems to be her MO: adding borders where there are none, cropping for consistency of size, inserting a mis=matched binding, adding fake flyleaves, colorizing b/w images. How can readers trust such a deceptive author?
Am now looking for an excuse to use the expression "I don't give two whoops in a rain barrel!"
1. First things first. The #Voynich manuscript (VMS from now on) is a real object. Please always keep that in mind! It is a medieval manuscript (more on that in a minute) that belongs to the @BeineckeLibrary at Yale University, where it has been MS 408 since it was given in 1969. 
We all know about the two dominant numeral systems in the European Middle Ages: Roman numerals and Arabic numerals. Roman numerals are good for labeling and expressing a single number like a date, but Arabic numerals won the fight for numerical supremacy...
As I mentioned in yesterday's absolutely chaotic thread (sorry, was trying to simultaneously board a plane and Tweet, always a bad idea), the branches at the bottom of ff. 12v/13 redirect all over the manuscript, as the survivors of Troy scatter across the Mediterranean: 
@sims_mss The Chronique is characterized not only by different histories in parallel columns, but also by a complex and lengthy genealogical diagram that records the lineage of humanity from Adam to the fifteenth century. 
digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.l…
The character we know as the ampersand [&] is used in nearly every Latinate language as a stand-in for the word [and]. But it didn’t start life as an abbreviation. It is actually a ligature, a Latin combination of two letters: [e] and [t], or [et], which in English means [and]. 
We’ll start in Rome, then jump up to the British Isles before heading back to the Continent. Buckle up, ‘cause here we go!
Among the most unusual symbols in the manuscript are these, known to Voynichologists as “gallows.” There are four, classified by the number of legs and the number of loops. For convenience, we call them (l-r, t-b) f, p, k, t. 
1) Have you done the reading? If not, you’d better. There are actual factual things known about this manuscript, and if you’re solution isn’t consistent with those facts, then forget it. Here come some facts:
This manuscript is a collection of Saint’s Lives and begins (f. 2r) with a visual table of contents: Gottschalk presenting his finished book to the Virgin and Child, with saints around the border. St. Nicholas is in the center right, as Bishop of Myra. 
