f85v, middle

f85v, middle. Voynich Manuscript. Credit: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.

This is the other image on f85v and has a central image of the Moon. I suggest this image is also the subject of SN 1572 and suggest that the date of 11th November 1572 can be found within the image.


f85v, middle. Voynich Manuscript. Credit: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University. Overlay by P. Han showing suggested connection of the image to the date 11/11/1572	f85v, middle. Voynich Manuscript. Credit: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University. Suggested Circle/dot=day, crescent Monn=month, outher circles=single years.

The blue marks in the innermost circle mark 11 larger marks like semi-circles with dots in the centre, I suggest these represent the sun and therefore days. Day =11.

The green marks in the next circle mark circles with the appearance of crescent Moons, I suggest these are months. Month = 11/November.

The outermost circle has alternate light and dark semi-circles that total 71 or 72 placing the missing light one behind the object held in the right hand by the figure on the left. I suggest this marks the 72 part of 1572.

The marks between the green “month” markers and red “year” markers contain a number of larger dark semi-circles, which number 19, if there is one extra marker hidden behind a figure as suggested by the orange dot this would make 20 markers. If 20 represents 1,000 then each large yellow and the orange marker would represent 50 years.

This would leave the 500 part of 1572 to be accounted for. There are many markers left and some part may represent 500 but overall 11/11/1572 fits along the lines of what is found in these circular markers more than another unconnected arbitrary date when the subject matter already suggested for f85v, SN 1572, occurred on 11/11/1572.

The image above left shows the only one clear marker on the page, shown in red. The blue lines mark the position of the figures and the pointing hand of the figure on the right. Using the figures as directional markers (as on f85v) and viewing SN 1572 from where the Moon is located, there is a match for the markers. The main red marker going through the Moon would represent the path of the Moon and the blue line up with the horizon and SN 1572 in relation to the Moon. The red dotted line shows the marker from the Moon to SN 1572. The red marker also passes through SN 1604 in one direction and very close to SN 1504 in the other direction, this may be the reason for the “Moon orbit” marker.

The figures themselves are very non-descript like the figures on f85v and in this role they may represent directional page markers. They also however hold distinct objects suggesting they may have a duel role and as images also represent constellations.

I suggest the figure to the top still “represents” Cassiopeia, holding a palm leaf and the orb of the new star (SN 1572). The figure on the right is pointing rather than the one on the left and I suggest this still represents Cepheus but from the other side, holding the disc of the new star next to an unusual semi circle which unlike the others on that circle has a rainbow type appearance. I suggest this represents the Celestial Zero Meridian, next to which the supernova was located just above Cepheus, the other hand pointing to the true position of the new star. The figure on the bottom I suggest may represent Capricorn, holding a goats? Horn and a misshapen disc. The figure on the bottom may represent Aquarius holding a container in one hand, with water flowing from the other hand. These constellations do not all lie on the Celestial Zero Meridian like those on the f85v “sun” image but they are the constellations most closely related to the location of the Moon and SN 1572 from this view of the sky and as I have suggested elsewhere is the location of SN 5 BC and its possible connection to the star of Bethlehem as subject matter in the manuscript.

Cepheus is to the right of Cassiopeia and below Aquarius is to the left of Capricorn.

f85v, middle, cropped. Voynich Manuscript. Credit: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University. Suggest figure on right is shown holding the orb of the new star next to the Celestial Zero Meridian and pointing to its true position.

f85v, middle, cropped. Voynich Manuscript. Credit: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University. Suggest bottom figure shown holding a goats? horn and a disc? = SN 5 BC?

Taurus and SN 1054 as seen from the star map above seem to be quite far out of the picture. The Moon has eyes but it is quite hard to tell where the one on the right is looking, the one on the left appears to be a line and the face is looking to the right. The dark side of the Moon is to the left, it appears to be looking along it’s orbit, Taurus and SN 1054 are close to the Moon’s orbit but away from this part of the sky. Unexpectedly SN 1604 the supernova seen by Kepler is directly in the path of the Moon. This may be coincidental and just represent the orbit of the Moon, but it raises the question as to whether just SN 1054 and SN 1572 or in fact many “new stars” could be recorded in the manuscript, and whether this is a direct cause for some of the manuscript pages and particularly the missing zodiac pages to have been removed.

Below the image shows the location of the supernovae as transferred onto the manuscript image from the star map, the Moon in this scenario appears to be looking at SN 5 BC in Capricorn.

The view of the sky indicated by the f58v Moon folio also appears to encompass most of the known recorded naked eye supernova within it’s view, with those in Cassiopeia and Taurus found on the f58v “Sun” folio. The Supernova in Vela (9,000 BC) is unlikely to be in Chinese records but lies just out of sight below Centaurus. In this view from the South which included the Moon, the supernovae which I have put forwards as the main topics in the Voynich Manuscript are out of view suggesting that there is another important topic which may be a concern of the missing pages. Assuming SN 1604’s relation to the Moon’s orbit is coincidental (there do not seem to be other references to this or the well recorded SN 1006 either) and the Moon’s eyes are indicating its orbit or looking at Virgo as suggested to appear in the image on f85v “Sun” folio, or even at Capricorn, then this leaves one item of interest above the horizon from this viewpoint. The supernova which is thought to lie in Capricorn has been suggested may be the “star of Bethlehem” and aside from any belief or otherwise in this as a real object, it’s discussion alone within a manuscript may be enough to lead to the removal of pages concerning it and for the topic of “new stars” and challenging the “immutability”of the heavens require writing in a hidden form. Tycho and Kepler had both stated that one of the only previous new stars to have ever occurred was the Star of Bethlehem. The Jesuit missionary J. F. Foucquet in 1729 on translating Chinese astronomical records suggested That the “hui-hsing” (bushy star) recorded by the Chinese in Capricorn in 5 BC may have actually been a nova due to its lack of recorded movement over the 70 days it was recorded. Since the 1950’s the connection of this Chinese record of a “guest star” to the Star of Bethlehem has been a matter of debate along with many other theories.

Below the supernovae shown on a Chinese style, North Pole centred star map. In this view SN 1054 and SN 1604 lie on opposite side of the North Pole and SN 1572 and SN 1181 are placed near the Pole.


f85v, middle. Voynich Manuscript. Credit: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University. Overlay by P. Han showing page marker and figures as markers.	Credit: Redshift6. Star map 11/11/1572 over Scania (formerly in Denmark). Overlay by P. Han showing comparison of star map with f85v, middle.


85v, middle, cropped. Voynich Manuscript. Credit: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University. Overlay by P. Han showing eye marker for the Moon.	Credit: Redshift6. Star map 11/11/1572 over Scania (formerly in Denmark). Overlay by P. Han showing alignment of the Moon and SN 1604.