The earlier working reading

Select, prepare, and carry forward

Folio 10r · 25 August 2026

A proposed interpretation, not a verified translation. Read the English summary below or open the complete English working translation.

Folio 10r, with blocks of Voynich script above and beside a blue-flowered plant with broad green leaves. — Beinecke MS 408 · 10r · Yale source

The proposed meaning · English summary

Choose the illustrated herb, remove its parts in sequence, and work them until ready for use.

Prepare further portions to the prescribed measure and pass them onward. The first major run closes; a second remains open for continuation.

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Where this reading comes from

What is on the page: A botanical drawing appears beside blocks of script. The pictured plant is visible; its species and medicinal use have not been identified.
What the interpretation adds: The earlier model treats the pictured plant as the material being discussed, assigns recurring forms actions such as taking and holding, and supplies context to turn them into instructions.
What is still unknown: No word meaning or complete sentence has been confirmed. Later research withdrew parts of this method; these instructions preserve an earlier interpretation, rather than a current decipherment.

Sources and edition history

Original workshop edition

The English summary follows the fourteen-page workshop reading of 25 August. The full working translation follows the later thirty-page German running-text draft. These are related historical editions, not a line-for-line translation of one another.