04-03-2025, 11:02 AM
(03-03-2025, 11:30 PM)Koen G wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.(03-03-2025, 10:31 PM)Mark Knowles wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.This document is one of the many documents I photographed on my recent visit to Milan. It contains the 4o character. There are so many other examples of ciphers with this character being used that I haven't catalogued or listed them all. I suppose this is an exercise that could be undertaken.
That's very interesting. Do you know if this has been deciphered, or how the 4o-symbol is used in other ciphers?
I took a number of photos of ciphers as well as other documents whilst in Milan. It will take me some time to process them all. I don't know that this cipher has been deciphered, although I will check at some point, otherwise I will have to decipher it myself.
Again, it would be an exercise for someone to record in each instance how the 4o symbol has been used in each cipher and which state it is used by and the date of the cipher. Someone could calculate the proportion of surviving ciphers from a given state and period that contain the 4o symbol.
To be honest though, I am equally or sometimes more interested in the appearance of other Voynichese symbols in ciphers such as the 4P (EVA-t), which also occurs though less often.