17-08-2025, 01:48 PM
This consideration is not complete without taking into account pseudo-scripts. People had a general idea of what (a particular style of) Arabic and Hebrew looked like, and somewhat convincingly imitated these.
But I would argue that, for the Latin scribe of the early 15th century, the Voynichese script would not have looked all that foreign, apart from perhaps the gallows. Rather a bizarre use of known, mostly non-alphabetic characters. This familiarity seems to have diminished enough by the Prague era to make them contact Kircher about it.
But I would argue that, for the Latin scribe of the early 15th century, the Voynichese script would not have looked all that foreign, apart from perhaps the gallows. Rather a bizarre use of known, mostly non-alphabetic characters. This familiarity seems to have diminished enough by the Prague era to make them contact Kircher about it.