18-11-2024, 06:01 PM
What originally attracted me to research the Voynich was this page and without it I doubt that I would have been interested in Voynich research. I felt that if the page was a map then discovering where it is a map of could greatly help Voynich research. I also thought it likely that if it was a map then it would be possible to identify the place in the map where the author was from. In fact, slightly to my surprise, my interpretation of the page lead me very specifically to conclude that the author was from the Abbey of Saints Nazzaro and Celso by the Sesia River. And further research into this page lead me to the opinion that the author was Abbot Antonio Barbavara who was the Abbot from 1428 to 1469 and also by far the important Abbot in the Abbey's history as well as having interests consistent with the themes found in the Voynich manuscript. And subsequent research lead me to suspect the involvement of his brothers Francesco Barbavara and Marcolino Barbavara, who much later research by myself has identified as writing and creating the most advanced ciphers in the world at that time that we know of, although unfortunately so much of the early 15th record of Milanese ciphers was destroyed in a fire in Milan in 1447 and what remains only lies in archives outside of Milan.
