12-05-2020, 06:02 PM
(This post was last modified: 12-05-2020, 06:05 PM by Mark Knowles.)
Another related Voynich question that troubles me, is for such an unusual and unique document why have we, as yet, found no contemporary references?
Things occur to me are:
1) It was intended to be secret and so very few people, deliberately, had any knowledge of it.
2) People who saw it thought it was unimportant and worthless, so there was no interest in it. It might seem to be a special document to us, but wouldn't have been regarded so at the time.
3) It was not intended to be taken very seriously. It was just a bit of fun, a side project just for entertainment.
4) All references to it were deliberately expunged from history.
5) It was somehow lost and forgotten, maybe as it was later.
6) Some combination of the above.
I daresay there are other possible explanations, but it just seems strange that something that contemporary people are fascinated by and is referred to widely, has no known references from that specific period.
The first guess has to be some effort to keep such an usual document secret. If people knew about it then it would have to have generated curiousity surely?
I have my own theory, but obviously that's just more speculation.
Things occur to me are:
1) It was intended to be secret and so very few people, deliberately, had any knowledge of it.
2) People who saw it thought it was unimportant and worthless, so there was no interest in it. It might seem to be a special document to us, but wouldn't have been regarded so at the time.
3) It was not intended to be taken very seriously. It was just a bit of fun, a side project just for entertainment.
4) All references to it were deliberately expunged from history.
5) It was somehow lost and forgotten, maybe as it was later.
6) Some combination of the above.
I daresay there are other possible explanations, but it just seems strange that something that contemporary people are fascinated by and is referred to widely, has no known references from that specific period.
The first guess has to be some effort to keep such an usual document secret. If people knew about it then it would have to have generated curiousity surely?
I have my own theory, but obviously that's just more speculation.