Hi David,
there's much to say about this...
"Secret" alphabets were not necessarily used to hide meaning. That concept seems to have arisen in the 14th century so is of course fully relevant for the Voynch MS.
However, apart from that, "unknown alphabets" were supposed to be a sign of learning, and knowledge.
There's a piece of writing called 'Cosmographia' by someone called 'Aethicus' which is from the 8th or 9th Century. This refers to an unknown alphabet. This work seems to be another good mystery (check the net).
The Alphabetum Kaldeorum already appears in the travel reports of someone called Jehan de Mandeville (before 1371) and turns out to be basically the same as the Aethicus alphabet.
PS (edit): the German wikipedia entry about Aethicus rather stands out in comparison to the other languages:
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there's much to say about this...
"Secret" alphabets were not necessarily used to hide meaning. That concept seems to have arisen in the 14th century so is of course fully relevant for the Voynch MS.
However, apart from that, "unknown alphabets" were supposed to be a sign of learning, and knowledge.
There's a piece of writing called 'Cosmographia' by someone called 'Aethicus' which is from the 8th or 9th Century. This refers to an unknown alphabet. This work seems to be another good mystery (check the net).
The Alphabetum Kaldeorum already appears in the travel reports of someone called Jehan de Mandeville (before 1371) and turns out to be basically the same as the Aethicus alphabet.
PS (edit): the German wikipedia entry about Aethicus rather stands out in comparison to the other languages:
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