The Voynich Ninja

Hello everybody!
You may believe me or not. (Since there are too many "translators" of the manuscript, if one tells the truth, nobody believes him.)
The author's name stays on the first foil of VM.
Anyone who believes to have translated the text should answer you this simple, simple question- who is the author?
If he/she does not answer it -be sceptical for the rest. I have asked several persons and- no answer at all.
Tell me what is your opinion- who is the author (not the writer/user) of the manuscript?
Be healthy and know, that the answer of this question will explain a lot!
I know the author, but will not disclose it until I may show the other things, that I have a translation of.
The Script is mostly in Moravian. There are other languages however too.
BR

Providing an author's name should by no means be expected of proposed solutions. Most medieval scribes were anonymous, and most named authors were older sources or pseudepigraphal.

I tend to be slightly more cautious when a solver has an author in mind, because it usually means the work is driven by confirmation bias.

I attempt to produce a profile of the author, mostly from the internal evidence, in a recent post here:

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All of it is conjecture, but that is the nature of profiling. 

I argue that profiling should be a central exercise in these studies.

We don't know who the author is, but we can say certain things about him that narrows it down. (We have a large sample of his work to help us, after all, namely the Voynich ms.) 

The name I throw into the ring is Bartolomeo Bayguera. I haven't seen his name suggested before. He was a small-time humanist notary who worked for the Bishopric of Brescia for most of his life.

I'd much rather know what the text has to say for itself. How was it written and why?

The name of one of the scribes is Ulrich.
But I can't read the text.

Yes, the Ulrich. I know him.
Ulrich von Lichtenstein from Gelderland.
He was a knight with a passion. ( Ritter aus Leidenschaft )

(08-06-2024, 12:06 AM)ReneZ Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.The name of one of the scribes is Ulrich.
But I can't read the text.

Is it written in the script, or in some brief around the document?

(07-06-2024, 07:29 PM)Koen G Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Providing an author's name should by no means be expected of proposed solutions. Most medieval scribes were anonymous, and most named authors were older sources or pseudepigraphal.

I tend to be slightly more cautious when a solver has an author in mind, because it usually means the work is driven by confirmation bias.

If the name is written on the firs foil, no matter a real name or a pseudonym, one who believes to understand the text and provides solutions, should had read it. Also the author is not the scribe, or the writer (methinks).
 The author's origin will rise questions and maybe provide more answers explaining some of the foils...

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(08-06-2024, 12:06 AM)ReneZ Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.The name of one of the scribes is Ulrich.
But I can't read the text.

Well, it is only a wild guess, of course, but there is some logic behind it.
To explain this logic, let's look at the short Chinese sentence:

你喜欢咖啡还是茶

Pasting this into Google translate will give its meaning, and a closer look may also reveal that there are two characters in here that are not 'really' Chinese. They do not mean anything, but represent sounds:

咖 = ka
啡 = fei

and the result is ka-fei meaning coffee.

So now one may entertain the hypothesis that something similar might be happening in the Voynich MS.

Most of the text is written in some sort of system, but certain words are inconvenient for this system, and are transliterated rather than 'encoded'.
It has been suggested that the four stand-alone words on You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. are the names of four of the participants in the creation of the MS. The first one reads:

ydaraiShy

This is a rather non-standard word, similarly to  doary which has been suggested to represent: taurus
Thus, this might be saying: udaric(h)us

Now Udaricus is one of the latinised forms of Ulrich , perhaps less common than Udalricus, but both are attested.

Clearly, this is just a hypothesis, and I am not betting any money on it, but it is not completely out of thin air.