The Voynich Ninja

I recently received an email advertisement for a new self-published book by Ianus van Altrideicktus claiming a Voynich solution (You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.). I have not read the actual book, but the synopsis is not particularly promising: yet another abbreviated-Latin solution based on "multiple glyph renderings", yielding text fragments but no published complete translation. Still, worthy of at least a mention on this forum.

Ianus van Altrideicktus Wrote:This book invites the reader on an adventurous journey into an uncharted realm of cryptology history through the decryption of the Holy Grail of codebreakers, the Voynich manuscript. The solution invokes multiple glyph renderings including both letters and abbreviations based on medieval Latin writing traditions. This way, the Voynich text constitutes a mixed polyphonic and shorthand cipher. Based on some insightful analogies from materials science and quantum mechanics, a context-propagation-based approach was developed toward decryption. With the help of this method, numerous Voynich sentences and text segments were deciphered. These are presented through three chapters in the book, and the first Voynich-Latin vocabulary is also provided therein. These discoveries explain its puzzling statistical-linguistic features and also why the Voynich code resisted the previous decryption attempts. Furthermore, the solutions and interpretations included in the book constructively resolve the apparent controversies that emerged during the century-long history of Voynich research.

In search of the Voynich author(s), the book also presents the discovery and decryption of some concealed ciphers in Leon Battista Alberti’s Hypnerotomachia Poliphili (also providing explicit evidence of his authorship), Johannes Trithemius’ Steganographia, and John Dee’s Enochian texts. Some of these non-local, polysemic ciphers turned out to be related to each other. Through the shocking decrypted contents, the reader can also get acquainted with the alchemical and black magical pursuits of cryptographer giants Leon Battista Alberti, Johannes Trithemius, and John Dee, who are also identified as the most likely contributors to the Voynich manuscript.

Besides, the book offers a solution to a concealed riddle of painter Jan van Eyck, a contemporary of Alberti. This decrypted content appears pivotal in the understanding of the painter’s clandestine pursuits. The presented multidisciplinary studies, along with numerous contemplative photographs, reflect the dualistic, magic-filled world of these Renaissance cryptographer magi. This book can serve as a reference work for amateur and professional cryptologists, historical linguists, scholars, art historians, and can certainly count on the interest of the general public as well.

Well at least the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili is a pretty interesting book.

Did your copy have the rebus illustrations? The technique of interpretation is similar to heraldic canting. You need to know the relevant language.