The guys from Siloé, the spanish company that made the Voynich facsimile a few years ago, have finally launched their Voynich study guide, a collection of Yale approved essays about the manuscript.
I made a little unboxing video for the forum!
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How much did that cost? It's really cool
Anything of particular interest in Alain Touwaide's essay?
Oh dear...someone @ Siloe needs to do better quality control on their blog...I ran across You are not allowed to view links.
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Login to view., and I'm not sure about the X-Files episode mentioned, but the Lovecraft, Neil Stephenson & Dan Brown bits are flat out bogus.
Pretty sure it's not in the X-Files either ^
That short really gives some scale to the vms, i never realized it was so small.
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The Voynich is in 'Elementary' tv series season 3 episode 'Under My Skin' , maybe that show is not famous enough.
Colin Wilson wrote a story, "The Return of the Lloigor", 1969 in which the Voynich manuscript turns out to be a copy of H.P.Lovecrafts famous book.
-- so there is a sort of extremely tenous relation there
(13-02-2026, 01:01 AM)RobGea Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Colin Wilson wrote a story, "The Return of the Lloigor", 1969 in which the Voynich manuscript turns out to be a copy of H.P.Lovecrafts famous book.
-- so there is a sort of extremely tenous relation there
If I had to guess...AI slop (or search engine AI summary hallucination that went unchecked).
From what we know of Lovecraft's media consumption diet it is inconceivable that he was unaware of Newbold's "decipherment" (heck, it is relatively inconceivable that anyone who regularly read the newspapers in 1921, let alone _Harper's_ or _Scientific American_, would have been unaware of it). He doesn't mention it in any of the letters in the old _Selected Letters_ volumes, not sure if it comes up in any of the more recent fuller volumes of his correspondence. IIRC, peak media Newbold coverage coincided with his mother's terminal illness, which could account for his failure to mention it -- it definitely seems like the sort of thing that would have appealed to him. There is a potential oblique reference in "The Case of Charles Dexter Ward": "He stated that the papers of his ancestor had contained some remarkable secrets of early scientific knowledge, for the most part in cipher, of an apparent scope comparable only to the discoveries of Friar Bacon and perhaps surpassing even those," although *in the story* that conversation takes place in May 1920 before Newbold's IRL claims in 1921 (the story itself was written in 1927).
Sorry for the digression. We now return you to your regularly scheduled coverage of the unboxing video...
Yep, that looks like some kind of AI summary scraped from the web, not hallucinated but very nebulous.
Lovecraft's forbidden - nomicon ==> associated by Wilson to Voynich
Stephenson's Crypto - nomicon ==> associated by Stephenson to Lovecraft
Browns' DaVinci code ==> associated with Crypto - graphy + DaVinci has been considered as a potential Voynich author
X-files ==> S2, Ep 2 tv show 'Ancient X-Files' and S1 Ep5 of 'The Unexplained Files' have segments on the Voynich ms
Thanks for the unboxing short davidjackson, that whole Voynich study guide, It all looks very classy.
David received the Spanish edition. This pair of books is part of the purchase of a Siloé Voynich MS facsimile.
The English edition is also ready, just undergoing final review of the proofs, and will be sent out in a few weeks.
In addition, the Engiish edition will also be available on the market, but I have no information about the price.