24-01-2020, 07:37 PM
(This post was last modified: 24-01-2020, 07:56 PM by davidjackson.
Edit Reason: Helps if I actually attach the article!
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Here's the complete article number 2 from above, Roger Bacon's Cypher Manuscript, American Review of Reviews, LXIV, 1921, pp.105-106 article, here:
Multipage_roger bacons cipher manu.pdf (Size: 4.84 MB / Downloads: 82)
I note the article specifically says that the MS was discovered by Voynich in Italy in 1912. To the best of my knowledge, at the time Voynich had moved on from claiming the MS to have been found in Austria to simply locate it in "southern Europe". But in the lecture, Dr Newbold has let slip it was Italy, which suggests he was in on the secret - correct me if I am wrong ReneZ?
The article also shows the nonsense of Newbold's theory. In it, he claims to expand seven original "shorthand" letters into no fewer than 172 Roman letters. There are then five more arbitrary steps to mix up, jumble, juxtapose and deduce words in pig Latin.
Multipage_roger bacons cipher manu.pdf (Size: 4.84 MB / Downloads: 82)
I note the article specifically says that the MS was discovered by Voynich in Italy in 1912. To the best of my knowledge, at the time Voynich had moved on from claiming the MS to have been found in Austria to simply locate it in "southern Europe". But in the lecture, Dr Newbold has let slip it was Italy, which suggests he was in on the secret - correct me if I am wrong ReneZ?
The article also shows the nonsense of Newbold's theory. In it, he claims to expand seven original "shorthand" letters into no fewer than 172 Roman letters. There are then five more arbitrary steps to mix up, jumble, juxtapose and deduce words in pig Latin.