Voynich decoded completely

[-JKP-]

Dear community,

my name is Dr. Michael Hoffmann. I am a geneticist, and I am pretty sure that I have decoded Voynich. 21 pages are translated completely, and the first line of 120+ pages of the manuscript also. I started working on Voynich some weeks ago, because I am on sabbatical and I needed a project.

The text inside Voynich is latin, and for translation it requires I) a decipher chart (which is in the attachment) and II) knowledge of frameshifts (i.e. syntax movements). Since I am the only one today who can read that script I am searching for followers helping to translate the whole manuscript. You do need knowledge of latin, at least that what we call a "grosses latinum" in germany.

Nonsense. If you can completely translate 21 pages in a few weeks, you do not need "followers" to do the work for you.

I am actually QUITE tired of people who announce that they have solved the VMS (without any firm evidence that their system is accurate) and then throw it out there for other people to do the work, with the idea that the "solver" gets the glory while other people make the effort (without any compensation). Frankly, I am amazed at how often this happens.

A degree in science is essential to accept the frameshifts/syntax movements; although some pages do not follow that rule, which might be due to the fact that Voynich is written by at least four different authors, and all of them obtain a different style.

Where is your scientific evidence that at least four different authors contributed and that they all used different styles? This is the kind of statement that can usually be statistically demonstrated, so show us. I will agree that there is more than one scribe (and Currier pointed out two different patterns in the structure of the text), but how can you determine there is more than one author?

Inside Voynich, spoiler alert, you can find poems and also texts about finance, as well as thoughts of, at least at that time, strange things, and cooking recipes. At least two of the authors are female. On a cooking recipe I am actually working, and it is page 150 of the digital copy provided by the yale university. This recipe is entitled "the five wings". If you are interested in discussions about Voynich translation, please feel free to contact me.

Certainly there might be poems. Some of the folios are formatted like poems. Many medieval manuscripts included poems. There might also be recipes. Even the earliest VMS researchers suggested parts of the manuscript might be recipes. Nothing new here.

And please find as an example attached translated page 92 of the digital copy provided by yale (latin and german). It is about the treatment of perotinitis (disease of the guts) with extracts of blue lotus. As in most cases the plant depicted on a page is decoration, on this page (and on some others that deal with medicine) it is not. I hope you can read the attachment, I had to minimize the original because of the 500 kb limit rule here.

The plant drawing does not resemble a blue lotus (or any kind of lotus) and I notice you covered up the parts of the plant that look even less like a lotus, but I will look at your translation this evening when I am done with work and let you know my impressions.