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The earlier working reading

Hold, connect, reset

Folio 81v · 25 August 2026

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

Folio 81v, with figures, green pools and connecting forms among blocks of Voynich script.
Beinecke MS 408 · 81v · Yale source

The proposed meaning · English summary

Set the item at the pictured station, add the named amount, and hold it for the recorded stage.

Move the material along the next route, set it up again, and allow individual runs to settle. The page becomes a series of closed application and transfer cells.

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Where this reading comes from

What is on the page
Human figures, pools, and connecting shapes appear beside the script. These drawings do not establish what the text calls them or the direction of movement.
What the interpretation adds
The earlier model treats each pictured location as a place of application, assigns recurring forms actions such as holding and transferring, and supplies the material from context.
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.