11-06-2026, 12:56 PM
I am just a passerby with some mild curiosity about the manuscript. Bellow are some suggestion and hypotheses (for which I have nor competencies, nor resources [nor willingness] to check them by myself), some might be obvious or stated elsewhere, some might be new and can, hopefully, if not help to uncover the mystery directly, then, at least, lead to some new insights (mainly the reason why I am writing this).
0.Based on the pictures alone, I make the assumption that it is some work of science (lecture notes, textbook, research etc.)
1.Since there are suggestions that the manuscript was used often, I make the following proposition: manuscript is not "cyphered", it is written in its own language. Otherwise you would need to decypher it every time you need it and it wouldn't practical (especially if the "cypher" doesn't have a simple solution).
1.1 Who wrote it: some private society (masons, their subgroup, the Order of Dagon or whatever).
1.2 Why own language: my grandma speaks Polish whenever she doesn't wants others to listen to her phone conversations. Here the reason might be similar: if you are a secret society, then with a language known only to the initiated, you can hold conversations anywhere without eavesdrop. As a bonus, if you have members from different countries (speaking different languages), then you have universal communication tool.
2.Why plants look exotic (and not like their real counterparts): the manuscript was dictated by someone (for ex. professor to a student), thus the one who draw them didn't saw the actual plants, he only had the word descriptions of them. This also explains why there are several handwrites (1 student writes the book, while others do some other tasks, then rotate)
3.If geometry books taught me anything, then it's that shitty drawings are always accompanied by a textual explanation. Thus it's reasonable to assume that the plant pages of the manuscript contain words for leaves, root, flower etc. We (and by that I mean You, the researcher) can extract words common for all the plant pages and try simple substitutions (X is "root", Y is "leaf") until we get a meaningful sentences, the rest of the words (from the plant section) can be picked logically. But it should be kept in mind that some words most likely are written with mistakes.
4.Additionally, with the help of a Botanical Expert, we can pinpoint (a biome) the location where the manuscript was written (since it's unlikely that the author was a traveler). Studying the history of the place may give hints about the order (maybe other similar works could be discovered there, maybe even the order itself)
0.Based on the pictures alone, I make the assumption that it is some work of science (lecture notes, textbook, research etc.)
1.Since there are suggestions that the manuscript was used often, I make the following proposition: manuscript is not "cyphered", it is written in its own language. Otherwise you would need to decypher it every time you need it and it wouldn't practical (especially if the "cypher" doesn't have a simple solution).
1.1 Who wrote it: some private society (masons, their subgroup, the Order of Dagon or whatever).
1.2 Why own language: my grandma speaks Polish whenever she doesn't wants others to listen to her phone conversations. Here the reason might be similar: if you are a secret society, then with a language known only to the initiated, you can hold conversations anywhere without eavesdrop. As a bonus, if you have members from different countries (speaking different languages), then you have universal communication tool.
2.Why plants look exotic (and not like their real counterparts): the manuscript was dictated by someone (for ex. professor to a student), thus the one who draw them didn't saw the actual plants, he only had the word descriptions of them. This also explains why there are several handwrites (1 student writes the book, while others do some other tasks, then rotate)
3.If geometry books taught me anything, then it's that shitty drawings are always accompanied by a textual explanation. Thus it's reasonable to assume that the plant pages of the manuscript contain words for leaves, root, flower etc. We (and by that I mean You, the researcher) can extract words common for all the plant pages and try simple substitutions (X is "root", Y is "leaf") until we get a meaningful sentences, the rest of the words (from the plant section) can be picked logically. But it should be kept in mind that some words most likely are written with mistakes.
4.Additionally, with the help of a Botanical Expert, we can pinpoint (a biome) the location where the manuscript was written (since it's unlikely that the author was a traveler). Studying the history of the place may give hints about the order (maybe other similar works could be discovered there, maybe even the order itself)
Don't you think people tried it before?