10-11-2025, 07:41 AM
I suspect that the basis of the Voynich manuscript was several notebooks on various topics belonging to a regionally known doctor, monk or alchemist, which he wrote in an extremely abbreviated form and ‘encrypted’ by writing some of it in mirror image (possibly a left-hander, no, not Leonardo) and also placing spaces randomly.
This was copied after his death in the hope that someone might be able to decipher it at some point. The copyists could not decipher the text and wrote down what they thought they saw.
I explain the different ‘languages’ by the fact that a new transcriber simply interpreted the underlying shorthand differently in some places, precisely because he did not understand it.
I would be really interested to know whether this theory would fit with your outcomes?
This was copied after his death in the hope that someone might be able to decipher it at some point. The copyists could not decipher the text and wrote down what they thought they saw.
I explain the different ‘languages’ by the fact that a new transcriber simply interpreted the underlying shorthand differently in some places, precisely because he did not understand it.
I would be really interested to know whether this theory would fit with your outcomes?