#VOYNICH MANUSCRIPT WIKIPEDIA CODE#
Since to this day, we can not attribute the letter-word-cypher model, we are either dealing with an extremely complex code that today’s quantum computers might have a crack at, divine inspiration, demonic whisperings, multidimensional influence, or extraterrestrial copy. On one hand, the precision and consistency are impressive for a mortal scribe. One must then make a couple of assumptions. So physically we can say the book is real and is aged correctly. The ink and paper coincide with materials available during the time period. (Someone grabbed a stack off the printer and set to work). Its pages have been dated and are consistent. So, with Randall’s permission, here goes:įacts: The book was found on this planet. (Getting only answers from a single bloke like me probably wouldn’t do him justice.) Rather than discussing this in private, i suggested “coming out in the open” and present Randall’s thoughts for discussion in a larger forum. In 2021 it is Randall Galera, who stumbled upon my recent post about Cistercian Numbers and used the opportunity to throw in a few ideas of his own. Starting the New Year by receiving new comments on your blog is always a wonderful thing. Nevertheless, does one of my readers have more background where I may have come about this scheme? “Guest Column”: Randall’s Thoughts Since 2004, I’ve moved away from simple substitution ciphers, because while the above scheme would indeed explain the occurence of three or more identical letters in a row, it fails to give an answer to the VM word grammar, why certain letter combinations are only ever found word-intitial or word-terminal, and other oddities. Of course, this would explain the occurence of triple glyphs.”īy “following” I meant “next in the alphabet.” Thus, the cipher would be basically a monoalphabetic subsitution cipher, but with “a” and “b” from the plaintext mapping to the same ciphertext character, “e” and “f” mapping to the same, etc.īack then I devoted a bit of time and statistics to the issue, but aside of a suggestion of Italian as the plaintext language and a tentative mapping of EVA to letters “i”/”l” (both “j” and “k” being uncommon at the time of creation of the VM, “l” would be the character following “i” in the alphabet), I didn’t get far. “Apparently there are medieval ciphers where one vowel and the following letter are encoded with the same character: “a”/”b” ->, “e”/”f” ->, etc. In June 2004 (boy, have we made progess since…!) I jotted down some ideas I had completely forgotten about by now: I’ve been browsing through an old notebook in which I kept notes about my Voynich studies lately. I doubt the Jesuits would have so strongly violated their work ethos, when they could have used the opportunity just the same to insert spectacular new theological content. One crucial aspect is that the VM is missing almost all the Christian iconography present in medieval art. It’s a nice twist, though IMHO a fanciful one. I especially like the new angle they gave it by suggesting the VM may not have been a hoax perpetrated by the man himself, but by the Villa Frascati team, meaning they duped Voynich because they themselves direly needed the money. I found it interesting that they exmained the plausibility of the VM being a “historical” or modern forgery (Hello, Rich!). (Maybe they didn’t put enough emphasis on the cryptological aspects, but this may be my personal bias. I found the coverage of the VM overall fairly balanced and thorough enough.
#VOYNICH MANUSCRIPT WIKIPEDIA SERIES#
Overall I like the series very much for its down-to-earth examination of riddles, prefering the plausbile over the spectacular and keeping a (let’s use the dirty word:) scientific mindset, rather than an esoteric one. Having lately watched the Science Channel docu series Strangest Things, I noticed that they covered the Voynich Manunscript as well.
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