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The Voynich Manuscript Anonymous 03/13/16 (Sun) 14:55:07 51bf2e No.36039

I know this only may be tangially related to /his/, but I was wondering what the general conensus here about the Voynich manuscript is.

What is an elaborate hoax, or a fake document to be sold as a curiosity for cash? Was it just supposed to be some form of art like the Codex Seraphinianus? Or do you think that the author was some late medieval crackhead or alchemist who actually wrote down various forms of knowledge in a secret language for whatever reason?

Anonymous 03/13/16 (Sun) 16:36:14 528fe8 No.36041

>>36039

imho it was notebook of some medieval sperglord.

imagine the confusion if someone found tolkien's manuscripts 500 years from now if he never published lord of the rings.

Anonymous 03/14/16 (Mon) 22:04:55 e203d3 No.36064

I once read a pdf from somewhere where the author tried to decipher the writing, saying it was like Roman cursive? I'm not sure if I still have it but it made a lot of sense.

Anonymous 03/15/16 (Tue) 00:00:26 e8cab9 No.36066

>>36064

From what I heard, numerous cryptologists argue that the patterns of letters and words are extremely unlikely to make any sort of sense because their formation simply does not fit for an actual language.

Anonymous 03/15/16 (Tue) 01:46:26 699051 No.36069

>>36064

It was "A proposed partial decoding of the Voynich script" by Stephen Bax

Anonymous 03/17/16 (Thu) 15:33:30 4ec188 No.36103

>>36064

>>36069

http://stephenbax.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Voynich-a-provisional-partial-decoding-BAX.pdf

It's freely available on the author's website.Though some statements are bizarre (the guy links "Khorasani-kutki to kaur, and says Mongolian is a Turkic language - is the latter true? he's a professor in linguistics) the main argument is convincing.

But if it really is a herbarium written in a script specifically created for a natural language, isn't it weird this is the only example?

Anonymous 03/17/16 (Thu) 16:27:08 528fe8 No.36104

>>36103

>But if it really is a herbarium written in a script specifically created for a natural language, isn't it weird this is the only example?

Hmm. We have hardly any inscriptions in Gargarean script (7 archeological short inscription and a palimpsest, along with a medieval Armenian transliteration manual) too.

Anonymous 03/17/16 (Thu) 20:06:04 4ec188 No.36108

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>>36104

Breddy interesting. I wonder if there are any "lost scripts" that we know existed but of which no trace remains, and if one of them fits what we know about the Voynich MS.

Anonymous 03/17/16 (Thu) 22:03:58 528fe8 No.36117

>>36108

Early medieval sources mention a writing system used by Slavs prior to Christianization, and there's also an etymological clue for this as Slavic languages have a common word for writing, despite having diverged prior to introduction of preserved writing systems.

Anonymous 03/19/16 (Sat) 16:26:05 028d0d No.36139

>>36117

Interesting, but it wouldn't really make sense here seeing how the Voynich Manuscript has been dated to ~16th century (at least if I remember correctly).