Calgary engineer believes he's cracked the mysterious Voynich Manuscript

[ReneZ]

Dear Ahmet,

I wanted to give some more constructive feedback to You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. , which was quite amazing and just made me want to say "Wow", but someone else already said it before me.

A lot is known about the life of Voynich, and you may not be fully aware of that.

Any theory about the manuscript that goes against some of the established history of it, has a major problem.

This is true for the theory that Voynich faked it, that Edward Kelly faked it, or that it was written in Meso-America. We know that it was produced in the early 15th century, and that it was in Prague/Bohemia at the start of the 17th century. We also know that it was with the Roman Jesuits from 1665 onwards. There are of course also many specific details that we do not know.

So by adding the type of speculation to your work, that is written in the post that I linked, you are creating a problem for your theory.

However, this is not at all necessary.

There are several completely logical and historically acceptable ways, how a MS that was in Turkey in the 1500's could end up at the court of Rudolf II.

Ogier Ghislain de Busbecq spent many years in the Ottoman empire, and acquired numerous items for his patron Maximilian II, who was the father of Rudolf II.

Leonhard Rauwolf traveled extensively in the near East, and later sold some of his books to Rudolf II.

Rudolf II was very interested in tulips, and bought many bulbs that came from the near East, probably Turkey.

Certainly, there were many contacts and any of them could (theoretically) bring a book from Turkey to Prague.