02-01-2026, 12:56 PM
One of the biggest problems in Voynich research, in my opinion, is that attention has been primarily directed to the script, while the images have been studied individually and almost never as a whole. It's curious because it's the opposite of what people in the Middle Ages would probably do. Illiterate people, of course, but also educated people if they had a codex full of fascinating images in front of them.
I believe that the authors of the Voynich were primarily concerned with exhibiting the fruit of their powerful imagination and only later attached a mechanically produced script to accompany the imagery.
If they had had something important to say in a text, they would have written it in Latin or their original language, but that was not the case because for them the script was only a means of adding more mystery to the wonderful images they drew.
I believe that the authors of the Voynich were primarily concerned with exhibiting the fruit of their powerful imagination and only later attached a mechanically produced script to accompany the imagery.
If they had had something important to say in a text, they would have written it in Latin or their original language, but that was not the case because for them the script was only a means of adding more mystery to the wonderful images they drew.