Gerard,
Please stop using this message board to promote your work on the Voynich Manuscript, as your work has nothing to do with the subjects covered by the Digital Medievalist listserv. Using this and other listservs to promote your work is highly inappropriate and not in keeping with accepted academic discourse.
In my role as Executive Director of the Medieval Academy of America, I have heard complaints from subscribers to other listservs boards about your constant use of such services to promote your work. Flooding message boards with self-promotional material will not make your "solution" correct, nor will attempting to mask the subject of your work by referring to the manuscript as "MS408" (itself a vague and ultimately inaccurate citation that is also not in keeping with best practices).
- Lisa
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On Thu, Dec 12, 2019, at 4:02 PM, Gerard Cheshire wrote:
> Apologies for any cross-posting.
>
>
> Dear Digital Medievalists,
> Ever since the publication of journal article *The Language and Writing System of Manuscript MS408 Explained*, we have been busy translating the plant pages in order to construct the lexicon for the manuscript. They all relate to matters of female reproduction and the complications that can arise, so the many plant species are used for various medicines.
>
> In the latest paper the plant is used as a form of magic 'æa' for the purpose of rectifying the damage done by the extreme physical manipulation 'æora' described in the previous paper. So, the manuscript does contain some magic after all. :0)
>
> Here is the link to Plant Series, No. 5:
https://ling.auf.net/lingbuzz/004917
> Please spread the word far and wide.
> Kindest regards,
> Gerard.
>
> Dr. Gerard Cheshire.
> Research Associate.
> University of Bristol.
>
https://bristol.academia.edu/GerardCheshire
>
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