27-02-2018, 04:08 AM
(25-02-2018, 05:42 AM)-JKP- wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.(25-02-2018, 04:50 AM)Morten St. George wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view....
I know. You guys have no need to discuss motive because you already know that the encryption was created by the chef of a feudal lord in northern Italy who wanted to keep his cooking instructions from falling into the hands of rival chefs. OK. Believe what you like.
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Actually, if it turned out to be an artificial language, or numbers, or something other than an encrypted natural language, I would not be at all surprised.
My recommendation to would-be decoders is to concentrate on the red-star passages of the recipes. The VMS authors had to know that the objective of the encryption was to protect the sacred text so it is possible that everything else in the MS is utter gibberish. Why encrypt the plant descriptions? If someone broke the code on the plants, they would be able to proceed to decode the sacred text.
Possibly, at one time, there was real language text attached to the original drawings, but when copying the drawings in the early 15th century, they could have or should have replaced that text with gibberish written in the glyphs. Moreover, in order to function the type of encryption I think they used would require a minimum length greater than the length of names we see attached to the girls in the astrology and biology sections.