New book by Ianus van Altrideicktus

[Thyl Witt]

Hello,

There appeared a new, quantitative paper by Ianus van Altrideicktus entitled "On the (Encoding) Dialects of the Voynich Manuscript: A Meaningless or a Meaningful Hoax (Polyphonic Cipher)?": You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.

Here is the Abstract of the paper:

"Abstract: This current work provides numerous quantitative, clear-cut evidences for the presence of at least four (encoding) dialects in the Voynich text. These are mostly based on the syllable and hapax legomena densities. Furthermore, this paper also aims at resolving the dichotomous division of the Voynich community concerning the nature and possible contents of the Voynich text by providing a coherent embedding explanation on the text creation in the framework of a self-cited polyphonic cipher accounting for the numerous puzzling features observed so far. Based on my proposed polyphonic cipher key (including medieval Latin abbreviations and word-ending truncations), I established a novel transcription of the full Voynich text, which can be considered as the first layer of decryption. This Latin-like text includes numerous Latin words, and its word-length distribution is consistent with those of regular Latin texts. These findings further corroborate the presence of an elaborate polyphonic cipher in the Voynich manuscript. Intriguingly, the long-standing division of the Voynich community was not without reason. It well reflected the dualistic concepts (toward deception) behind the creation of the Voynich cipher, according to my proposed decryption of the manuscript’s ars poetica encrypted on folio 65v."

And there also appeared a novel (full) Voynich transcript related to it: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.

These materials looked insightful to me. (I am not the author.)

Best wishes,
Thyl Witt