12-03-2023, 11:51 PM
This is my first post here so hello to everybody 
I've been reading about Voynich manuscript for some time and like many people here I'm coming to conclusion
that it can't be a simple substitution cipher, letter for a letter.
It also seems to me quite probable that we shouldn't treat each of Voynich letters independently but rather work
with common groups of letter like or, ol, ain etc.
If we did so, another problem emerges however. If we assume that groups of Voynich letters code single letters in the plaintext
then the supposed words in the plaintext become really short - usually 2 or 3 letters.
If we treat space as space then text made of such words would be generally very improbable, unless we assume that the words
are heavily shortened.
My question is - would you accept and under what conditions such a theoretical solution as below?
D scn ol e prd lc e scn prr
i lbt or amp stn obd ol rcn omp cnd cng un
aq ur dmd inf tm lu cqt lnt agt
I created it by radical shortening of this text taken from "De materia medica": You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.
De Sicyonio oleo. E praedictis licet et Sicyonium sic parare .
In lebetem oris ampli stanno obductum olei recentis omphacini candidique congium unum ,
aquae vero dimidium infundito , tum igne levi coquito , leniter agitando.
And another question - if the original text is shortened like this, would anybody different from the creator of it be able to read it?
I realise that people in Middle Ages used abbreviations much more than we use today but everything has its limits I guess.
I've been reading about Voynich manuscript for some time and like many people here I'm coming to conclusion
that it can't be a simple substitution cipher, letter for a letter.
It also seems to me quite probable that we shouldn't treat each of Voynich letters independently but rather work
with common groups of letter like or, ol, ain etc.
If we did so, another problem emerges however. If we assume that groups of Voynich letters code single letters in the plaintext
then the supposed words in the plaintext become really short - usually 2 or 3 letters.
If we treat space as space then text made of such words would be generally very improbable, unless we assume that the words
are heavily shortened.
My question is - would you accept and under what conditions such a theoretical solution as below?
D scn ol e prd lc e scn prr
i lbt or amp stn obd ol rcn omp cnd cng un
aq ur dmd inf tm lu cqt lnt agt
I created it by radical shortening of this text taken from "De materia medica": You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.
De Sicyonio oleo. E praedictis licet et Sicyonium sic parare .
In lebetem oris ampli stanno obductum olei recentis omphacini candidique congium unum ,
aquae vero dimidium infundito , tum igne levi coquito , leniter agitando.
And another question - if the original text is shortened like this, would anybody different from the creator of it be able to read it?
I realise that people in Middle Ages used abbreviations much more than we use today but everything has its limits I guess.