Voynich Manuscript
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Posted on 02/12/2008 1:51:49 PM PST by blam
The Mystery of the Voynich Manuscript
New analysis of a famously cryptic medieval document suggests that it contains nothing but gibberish
By Gordon Rugg
STRANGE IMAGES of heavenly spheres, fantastic plants and nude women adorn the pages of the Voynich manuscript, which is written in an odd script that does not match that of any known language. The manuscript now resides at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University.
In 1912 Wilfrid Voynich, an American rare-book dealer, made the find of a lifetime in the library of a Jesuit college near Rome: a manuscript some 230 pages long, written in an unusual script and richly illustrated with bizarre images of plants, heavenly spheres and bathing women. Voynich immediately recognized the importance of his new acquisition. Although it superficially resembled the handbook of a medieval alchemist or herbalist, the manuscript appeared to be written entirely in code. Features in the illustrations, such as hairstyles, suggested that the book was produced sometime between 1470 and 1500, and a 17th-century letter accompanying the manuscript stated that it had been purchased by Rudolph II, the Holy Roman Emperor, in 1586. During the 1600s, at least two scholars apparently tried to decipher the manuscript, and then it disappeared for nearly 250 years until Voynich unearthed it.
Voynich asked the leading cryptographers of his day to decode the odd script, which did not match that of any known language. But despite 90 years of effort by some of the world's best code breakers, no one has been able to decipher Voynichese, as the script has become known. The nature and origin of the manuscript remain a mystery. The failure of the code-breaking attempts has raised the suspicion that there may not be any cipher to crack.
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Voynich Manuscript
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Be sure to drink your Ovaltine!
Good. We haven’t had a Voynich manuscript thread for too long now.
Ha ha!!!
Actually, it has now been deciphered. It turns out, the author was crying at the time, and it blurred the ink. It turns out to be an endorsement of John McCain.
For example: This page says," The plant on the right has been separated and divided far too long from the plant on the right. The money I save by pulling out of Iraq and stopping this senseless warfare against our misunderstood Muslim brothers will let me, as your President, unite the plants and get them moving forward together again in Peace, Harmony, and Brotherhood. And by the way if you don't agree you are a racist swine."
No charge for this sample. Send me the rest of the book and I'll do it for $500 a page.
Obviously written in pig Latin.
Secret code ping!
It’s like the Democrat manifesto: it literally makes no sense, but you “can believe in it”.
This is one of the things that sparked my interest in Philology and Linguistics.
ping
May be a copy of the Necronomicon! Don’t read it, or you’ll go MAD!
“May be a copy of the Necronomicon! Don’t read it, or you’ll go MAD!”
Decryption is necessary before election day, as we should have no lesser evil to vote for than Cthulu, the worm itself.
Old man Voynich was probably just messing with our heads
LOL!
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Pluris nunti occulti ping.
It’s a COOKBOOK!!!
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