30-12-2020, 01:38 AM
(29-12-2020, 10:59 PM)MichelleL11 wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.I am not convinced the VM and Fontana's work share similar motivations.I am not really suggesting the works share similar motivations as they cover quite different topics. My notion is that the motivations for enciphering them might be similar.
One idea that has been put in my head from this discussion is that if Trithemius and Fontana wrote about ciphers in their enciphered books could the author of the Voynich cipher have written about that very same cipher in the manuscript on one of the pages without illustrations? Certainly the temptation to extoll the virtue of one's own cipher could have been high.