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The earlier working reading

Three separate address spaces

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

Wide scan containing folio 69 verso and 70 recto, with several circular diagrams and surrounding Voynich script.
Beinecke MS 408 · 69v and adjoining 70r · Yale source

The proposed meaning · English summary

Look up local celestial positions by class and value.

The left wheel has 28 local positions; the two other wheels keep their own classes and entries. The cards do not become one linear 28-step instruction.

Where this reading comes from

What is on the page
Circular diagrams, figures or stars, and short inscriptions provide the setting. The pictures alone do not identify a date, a numbered step, or a direction of travel.
What the interpretation adds
The earlier model treats the inscriptions as local entries and positions. The reading of classes, values, or destinations comes from that model, not from identified celestial names.
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.