18-01-2021, 08:50 AM
(16-01-2021, 08:27 PM)Mark Knowles wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Whilst not everyone believes the Voynich manuscript is European in origin my impression is that this is the dominant view.
Hi Mark. I just want to reiterate that "European in origin" and "Non-European in origin" are not necessarily the only options. Which i mean to say that "origin" is the pertinent word here.
For example, if you sent me a note from Great Britain, and then i translate it to Voynichese and send it back to you, that does not tell clearly a third party who eventually finds the note in Germany whether the origin is from Great Britain, where i translated it, or from the origin of the Voynichese language. So things are very unclear.
It is possible for instance that the VMS has content that originated outside of Europe and then was translated in Europe.
And so from many angles it could look like it were from Europe. From other angles it might look like it were from outside Europe.