The earlier working reading

Rows, degrees, sources, destinations

Folio 70v · 25 August 2026

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

First scan of the folio 70 verso foldout, with circular diagrams, figures and Voynich script. — Beinecke MS 408 · 70v, two-part scan · Yale source · Second scan source

Second scan of the folio 70 verso foldout, with ringed figures and Voynich script. — Beinecke MS 408 · 70v, two-part scan · Yale source · Second scan source

The proposed meaning · English summary

Find a figure’s place by row, class, next position, degree, source, destination, or local value.

The Aries and Pisces ring texts are treated as addresses and sub-addresses. In this context, the proposed value AIR means movement around a ring—not water.

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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.