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The earlier working reading

Three vessels, three ingredient lists, three preparations

Folio 88r · 25 August 2026

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

Folio 88r, with three decorated vessels, labeled roots and leaves, and three blocks of Voynich script.
Beinecke MS 408 · 88r · Yale source

The proposed meaning · English summary

Select from the labeled stores or ingredients, remove the needed share, begin the preparation, and add further components.

Hold, inspect, and distribute the batch to the indicated places; some passages travel through an outlet. In the working model, this page is the clearest meeting point of composed instructions, learned formulas, and local names.

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Where this reading comes from

What is on the page
Vessel-like figures and separate plant parts sit beside labels and running text. The whole form “okol” appears both in a label and in the prose.
What the interpretation adds
The earlier model reads the vessels as preparations, the plant parts as ingredients, and the prose as instructions. The repeated label supports a textual connection, but does not prove this recipe reading.
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 · Read the full source transcription

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.