16-01-2026, 04:48 AM
(15-01-2026, 11:50 PM)Bluetoes101 wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Was it always the "Cipher Manuscript" as it is called now (as its "wonder") or did it's label change over time and have different "wonder"?
Barschius apparently believed that it was just an unknown language in an unknown script. He sent a partial copy to Kircher after seeing his book on the Coptic language and script (which was sound work) and/or his decipherment of the Egyptian hieroglyphs (which was total bullshit). That is, because he saw Kircher as an expert in "deciphering" foreign languages.
On the other hand, whoever wrote the letter table on page f1r apparently thought it was some kind of cipher. It may have been Marci, perhaps by influence of his friends Raphael, who wanted to be known as an expert cryptographer. Could it have been Kircher, or some Jesuit after him? It does not fit the idea I have of Sinapius.. Maybe some other owner before him?
All the best, --stolfi