A Cusanus Ladin Hypothesis

[Hermes777]

The type of system used to create the Voynich text is highly suggestive of the systems of Ramon Llull

I am interested in the text and would be happy to learn more about this system, was it already discussed on this forum?

Ruby, I am not sure if Llull has been covered in this forum, but his name has been thrown around a bit over the years. I note for instance that Robert Firth, years back now, suggested that Llull would be a candidate for devising systems that might generate the sort of linguistic patterns evident in the VMs. Llull was too early, but his biggest fan, Nicholas of Cusa, was in the appropriate period. 

There are various ways of deconstructing the text into syllables or word fragments. If these are plotted onto wheels within wheels you can devise systems that will reproduce a good number of Voynichese words (vords) - but never all of them. Various arrangements produce better or worse results. In any case, there is strong evidence of a system of combinatorics. Take almost any Voynich word and all its variations are exhausted throughout the text. 

This all suggests the sort of systems Llull had devised. Cusanus was an avid student of Llull's Art. I suspect the Voynich text is some application or development of the Llullian Art by Cusanus. I think it could be fruitful to explore the text from this viewpoint. But what has Cusanus done? And why did it require a special script? There are endless questions.