The Voynich Ninja

Google drive?

I have linked to Google Drive. If someone can upload a backup to Ninja that would be great.

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I have not yet completed a write-up of my analysis which would greatly help illuminate my thinking, but after uploading my small plant image matching work for which there has been a lot more interest than I expected I thought I would upload this too.

There are so many details that I think that it is impossible that they are all correct, however I don't think this precludes the analysis as being broadly accurate.

Whether one thinks my theory has any truth to it or not, I believe it serves as a challenge to the explain specific details of the Rosettes page. From the theories that I am aware of it is the most detailed I have seen.

To understand the theory best ideally one needs to understand how the theory was formed and the order it which it developed. It started with Nick Pellings identification of top right Rosette as representing Milan and continued to develop in a very roughly anticlockwise manner.

The theory, if correct, has strong Authorship implications and explains many of both the Italian and German influences on the Voynich, even though the German influences were unknown to me at the time of the development of the theory.

For me a key an overwhelming supporting piece of evidence discovered subsequently was that the supposed author brothers turned out to be writing the most advanced ciphers of the time in the world.(I think it highly probable that the Voynich was written in conjunction with those brothers). To use the time honoured phrase, I question whether it can be a coincidence, that my "map" analysis would predict the author of the manuscript to be the Abbot of a minor rural Abbey who subsequently it turns out was closely related to the most advanced cryptographers of the time of the Voynich, whose ciphers show features not seen in later ciphers.

I will be writing a paper this year on these ciphers.

I noticed that I had to grant people permission to see my map. Hopefully it is now available to anyone with the link.

(03-11-2023, 06:09 PM)Mark Knowles Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.I noticed that I had to grant people permission to see my map. Hopefully it is now available to anyone with the link.

Have interested people been able to download the file? It is a very large image file, but I found that necessary.

I know have doubts about the identification of Castello Barbavara with the Centre Bottom Rosette. Due to its destruction it is difficult to know what its appearance was precisely like during the Voynich era. There are also other Barbavara associated castles in that region that are now completely in ruins, so it is difficult to know what they looked like in the Voynich era.

More research into the appearance of the castles at the Voynich period would need to be done. Also determining which would be most significant to the family at that time would help.

It is also possible that it represents a non-Barbavara related building, though if so I would welcome suggestions in that region which fit visually.

(04-11-2023, 10:14 PM)Mark Knowles Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.

(03-11-2023, 06:09 PM)Mark Knowles Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.I noticed that I had to grant people permission to see my map. Hopefully it is now available to anyone with the link.

Have interested people been able to download the file? It is a very large image file, but I found that necessary.

No problem at all, just takes 10 seonds

As a result of having discussed my "map" theory with Professor Paul Harvey, author of "Medieval Maps", I was invited by editor Dr. Catherine Delano Smith to write a paper for the journal "Imago Mundi", on the History of Cartography. I have as yet been reluctant to do so given the controversial nature of the Voynich and the negative publicity that could bring to their journal.

In Nick Pelling's book "The Curse of the Voynich" he argues that the top right Rosette of the Rosettes Folio represents the city of Milan. He also identifies various drawings of buildings with locations in or near Milan. This was the starting point for my analysis though my analysis came to diverge from his in some areas.

I interpret the "map" as a "map of a journey" where the central rosette in not a part of the "map" which means it does not correspond with a geographical location. The "causeways" connecting each outer Rosette constitutes part of the journey.

Having taken the top right Rosette to be Milan looking at the bottom left "clock" or "compass", the two sun's and the top right t/o map I had decided on the bearings of the "map" page and a reference location. This opened the possibility to reconstructing the whole "map".