06-03-2025, 04:26 PM
Hello to everyone !
I am new in this forum and I know the manuscript for only two years. What I want to say is: I am a beginner in this subject. So I beg everyone pardon if I am showing up with questions and ideas which maybe had already been discussed several times in the past. It is hard to get an overview. I am a civil engineer and in no way qualified to solve middleage riddles or doing cryptology. But I am deeply interested.
Here are three of my thoughts/questions:
1:
I understand that substitution letter by letter does not work. Assuming a chain of letters corresponds to a word and identical chains do not change the meaning, is it worth a try to substitute hole words . I mean, making a list of the most common words in the script and give them a meaning taking into account the topics of the drawings in the book(or the texts in other herbals ? Are there any attempts made ? Or is the amount of possibilities killing this method? This procedure asumes that the writing is an artificial language. If so, how did the writer manage to do the writing? First he must had invented a dictionary for his new language. But that is a hard way to write so many pages, looking for nearly every word in a list until you become used to it. Substitution is far easier to learn und after a while you can write fluently whithout any aid.
2:
We don`t know if the text has a meaning or not. If it is meaningless, why took the author so much affort in following special rules (some charcaters only at the end, some characters follow only a certain other character..) ? A simple answer could be: because it has a meaning or he wants it to look like a meaningful text. On the other hand, if the author wanted to produce a meaningless text which looks like a meaningful text, why didn`t he use a typical amount of characters?
3: There is a character that appears only at the end of a line. Is there any idea for a good reason? What useful information can such character give the reader ?
If you know any thread dealing with these questions I am glad to know . Thank you!
Andreas
I am new in this forum and I know the manuscript for only two years. What I want to say is: I am a beginner in this subject. So I beg everyone pardon if I am showing up with questions and ideas which maybe had already been discussed several times in the past. It is hard to get an overview. I am a civil engineer and in no way qualified to solve middleage riddles or doing cryptology. But I am deeply interested.
Here are three of my thoughts/questions:
1:
I understand that substitution letter by letter does not work. Assuming a chain of letters corresponds to a word and identical chains do not change the meaning, is it worth a try to substitute hole words . I mean, making a list of the most common words in the script and give them a meaning taking into account the topics of the drawings in the book(or the texts in other herbals ? Are there any attempts made ? Or is the amount of possibilities killing this method? This procedure asumes that the writing is an artificial language. If so, how did the writer manage to do the writing? First he must had invented a dictionary for his new language. But that is a hard way to write so many pages, looking for nearly every word in a list until you become used to it. Substitution is far easier to learn und after a while you can write fluently whithout any aid.
2:
We don`t know if the text has a meaning or not. If it is meaningless, why took the author so much affort in following special rules (some charcaters only at the end, some characters follow only a certain other character..) ? A simple answer could be: because it has a meaning or he wants it to look like a meaningful text. On the other hand, if the author wanted to produce a meaningless text which looks like a meaningful text, why didn`t he use a typical amount of characters?
3: There is a character that appears only at the end of a line. Is there any idea for a good reason? What useful information can such character give the reader ?
If you know any thread dealing with these questions I am glad to know . Thank you!
Andreas