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This is another really interesting one..not because it matches Voynich, but because to me at least it provides an analogue for what Voynich could be: A personal (small group) collection, and I do wonder whether there's a German/Jewish angle here. Highly educated, multi lingual people with a penchant for making multi source manuscripts for the community and personal use.
"The manuscript was written in four languages: Hebrew, Yiddish, German and Latin, by an erudite Jew in the last quarter of the 15th century in South Germany. His sentences, mostly a mixture of Yiddish and Hebrew, are often written in a negligent hand and closely fill many margins, rendering the text illegible. This suggests that the treatises were copied for his own interest and for no one else. The drawings in the main follow those of the Bellifortis by Conrad Keyser (1402-5) and the Firework Book by an anonymous author of 1420. The immediate exemplar has not been identified. It would be worthwhile studying the language and collating the texts.
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This is another really interesting one..not because it matches Voynich, but because to me at least it provides an analogue for what Voynich could be: A personal (small group) collection, and I do wonder whether there's a German/Jewish angle here. Highly educated, multi lingual people with a penchant for making multi source manuscripts for the community and personal use.
"The manuscript was written in four languages: Hebrew, Yiddish, German and Latin, by an erudite Jew in the last quarter of the 15th century in South Germany. His sentences, mostly a mixture of Yiddish and Hebrew, are often written in a negligent hand and closely fill many margins, rendering the text illegible. This suggests that the treatises were copied for his own interest and for no one else. The drawings in the main follow those of the Bellifortis by Conrad Keyser (1402-5) and the Firework Book by an anonymous author of 1420. The immediate exemplar has not been identified. It would be worthwhile studying the language and collating the texts.
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