28-04-2021, 03:52 PM
I believe that now is a good moment to provide a brief summary of several various rules of this "Yorkist cipher" as I have provisionally deduced them at this stage of the investigation. I have attempted to provide below a clear description of all the cipher rules that are necessary to interpret the "Yorkist cipher letter values" of the lines of text that I provide above as the actual intended Middle English words of the same lines of text that are also provided above, for example in the 7th and 6th lines of text up from the bottom of page You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. , which refer to the recently deceased "Hotspur" Henry Percy and his son and successor.
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Rule A: The letter "a" is not written at all in the text. Perhaps this is because the first two vowels in "Lancaster" are both "a", and/or because according to the "backwards alphabet" theme of the cipher, omitting "a" makes the first letter of the hated "BolingBroke" become the last letter of the backwards alphabet. (I told you this was a venomous Yorkist diatribe against the Lancastrian king!)
Rule B: Every word that begins with "B" is written backwards, so that the hated first letter of "BolingBroke" will always appear last in words.
Rule C: Words can also be written either forwards or backwards in order to make them appear with the same first letter as "YorK" or "MortiMer" (the Yorkists' favoured claimant to the English throne). [Note: It is not a contradiction for the Yorkists to support both Mortimer and Percy, because in the so-called You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. of 1405, the plan was to divide up England and Wales into three parts, with Mortimer taking southern England, Percy (Northumberland) taking northern England, and Glyndwr taking Wales and part of western England. See You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view..]
Rule D: Furthermore, the same forwards/backwards rule applies to making words appear with initial "TH" or "N", because in the Voynich script the characters for "Y" and "TH" have a very similar shape, and the characters for "M" and "N" also have a very similar shape.
Rule E: The character to which I assign the value "K" can represent "k", "hard c", "hard g", "gh", "ng", or "-ing". The motivation is to make it appear the same as the final letter of "YorK".
Rule F: In line with the above rules, words are written forwards or backwards in order to make them appear with this final "K" character wherever possible, in order to match the final "K" of "YorK".
Rule G: The characters to which I assign the value "O" are also special because "O" is a letter in "YORK". This "O" can represent "o", "ou", "u", or an unstressed "e" in endings such as "-er" or "-eth". Indeed even in modern English we pronounce the unstressed endings "-er" and "-our" or "-or" identically. Again the motivation for this rule is to make the letter "O" in "YORK" appear as frequently as possible in the text.
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With all of these rules, and with the correspondence table previously posted, plus the additional value EVA [q] (Currier [4]) = "h", it should be possible for anyone to independently verify the interpretation of the following lines of "Yorkist cipher letter value" text as the actual intended Middle English text that follows it:
" spOr theOs hOtOR thiris nOs thOsiR O theOMiB "
" ltO thOtis YOnK hOtK YmK KteethK thOetiR "
" Spur soueth hotər : theiris son risəth o bimoueth "
" al-to siteth yong, hoting acme gatteething riteth "
(" Spur ["Hotspur"] sows/begets hotter : their son rises, ever mocks [Bolingbroke] "
" He absolutely rules young, promising at maturity he stabs the gap-toothed [Bolingbroke] ")
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Geoffrey
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Rule A: The letter "a" is not written at all in the text. Perhaps this is because the first two vowels in "Lancaster" are both "a", and/or because according to the "backwards alphabet" theme of the cipher, omitting "a" makes the first letter of the hated "BolingBroke" become the last letter of the backwards alphabet. (I told you this was a venomous Yorkist diatribe against the Lancastrian king!)
Rule B: Every word that begins with "B" is written backwards, so that the hated first letter of "BolingBroke" will always appear last in words.
Rule C: Words can also be written either forwards or backwards in order to make them appear with the same first letter as "YorK" or "MortiMer" (the Yorkists' favoured claimant to the English throne). [Note: It is not a contradiction for the Yorkists to support both Mortimer and Percy, because in the so-called You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. of 1405, the plan was to divide up England and Wales into three parts, with Mortimer taking southern England, Percy (Northumberland) taking northern England, and Glyndwr taking Wales and part of western England. See You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view..]
Rule D: Furthermore, the same forwards/backwards rule applies to making words appear with initial "TH" or "N", because in the Voynich script the characters for "Y" and "TH" have a very similar shape, and the characters for "M" and "N" also have a very similar shape.
Rule E: The character to which I assign the value "K" can represent "k", "hard c", "hard g", "gh", "ng", or "-ing". The motivation is to make it appear the same as the final letter of "YorK".
Rule F: In line with the above rules, words are written forwards or backwards in order to make them appear with this final "K" character wherever possible, in order to match the final "K" of "YorK".
Rule G: The characters to which I assign the value "O" are also special because "O" is a letter in "YORK". This "O" can represent "o", "ou", "u", or an unstressed "e" in endings such as "-er" or "-eth". Indeed even in modern English we pronounce the unstressed endings "-er" and "-our" or "-or" identically. Again the motivation for this rule is to make the letter "O" in "YORK" appear as frequently as possible in the text.
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With all of these rules, and with the correspondence table previously posted, plus the additional value EVA [q] (Currier [4]) = "h", it should be possible for anyone to independently verify the interpretation of the following lines of "Yorkist cipher letter value" text as the actual intended Middle English text that follows it:
" spOr theOs hOtOR thiris nOs thOsiR O theOMiB "
" ltO thOtis YOnK hOtK YmK KteethK thOetiR "
" Spur soueth hotər : theiris son risəth o bimoueth "
" al-to siteth yong, hoting acme gatteething riteth "
(" Spur ["Hotspur"] sows/begets hotter : their son rises, ever mocks [Bolingbroke] "
" He absolutely rules young, promising at maturity he stabs the gap-toothed [Bolingbroke] ")
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Geoffrey