Abstract: The translation of the note on Folio 116 and the decoded first five lines of Folio 1 show that a ten-year-old Leonardo da Vinci began writing the Voynich Manuscript around 1462, after he returned from Africa.

The last page of the VM, Folio 116 or the Micharon page, contains a three-line section. There have been various attempts to interpret these three lines. Johannes Albas suggested that they describe a herbal recipe, based on the use of billy goat’s liver for a plaster to apply to a wound.(I) As in all his interpretations, Albas parses individual words by adding additional letters. In this article, the section is translated from Italian without any modifications.

In an earlier article I attempted to translate this section with the aid of a modern Italian dictionary. The following translation relies on the more appropriate Florio’s 1611 Italian English dictionary.(II) Some of the letters represent Roman numerals; for example, the first word of the second line “FIX” represents the number 49 and “M4VIX” represents 1459. I was only able to translate this section when I discovered that in the Middle Ages “F” denoted 40, such usage having disappeared in modern times.