22-09-2019, 06:01 PM
Yes, I obviously know about the Codex Seraphinianus and Rohonc codex being an aficionado of Nick Pelling's blog.(I may have come across them somewhere else before that, I can't remember.)
Though it is true that they are unique documents. I heard that the Voynich was the inspiration for the Codex Seraphinianus?? Nevertheless whatever the explanation for the Rohonc codex it seems not unreasonable to say that it is quite unique in it's own way.
Anyway, what I was trying to point to is that as far as I am aware all the explanations for the Voynich's existence and specifically its text have no clear and obviously contemporary precedent or parallel. So from what I understand for that period there is no real parallel for a hoax manuscript, a complex cipher manuscript, a constructed language etc. Now if it is a natural language in a rare unknown script then there are precedents for that, but there are other reasons why that explanation is problematic.
It makes me wonder if a unique document would be a product of a very unusual individual or very unusual circumstances or both. (I mean very unusual in the broadest sense whether it be unusually intelligent or unusually crazy or unusually persecuted or unusually isolated.)
Though it is true that they are unique documents. I heard that the Voynich was the inspiration for the Codex Seraphinianus?? Nevertheless whatever the explanation for the Rohonc codex it seems not unreasonable to say that it is quite unique in it's own way.
Anyway, what I was trying to point to is that as far as I am aware all the explanations for the Voynich's existence and specifically its text have no clear and obviously contemporary precedent or parallel. So from what I understand for that period there is no real parallel for a hoax manuscript, a complex cipher manuscript, a constructed language etc. Now if it is a natural language in a rare unknown script then there are precedents for that, but there are other reasons why that explanation is problematic.
It makes me wonder if a unique document would be a product of a very unusual individual or very unusual circumstances or both. (I mean very unusual in the broadest sense whether it be unusually intelligent or unusually crazy or unusually persecuted or unusually isolated.)