12-06-2026, 07:43 PM
This could be a deliberate decision of the author(s) to never use this cipher for anything else.
I've been pushing this idea a few times, and I'll repeat it again: the invention of a strange new alphabet for the cipher could be motivated by the desire to protect the identity of the author(s). Normal characters can be matched against the existing handwriting to attempt identifying the author. You can't identify the author if the whole text is written in an invented alphabet. I think it's possible that even the characters that are similar to the existing European numbers or abbreviations (y, l, etc) are written in the Voynich Manuscript in a specific peculiar way to suppress the normal writing habits.
If the above it true, then this can only work if the script is only used for the codex and never again and certainly doesn't appear in any plaintext documents.
I've been pushing this idea a few times, and I'll repeat it again: the invention of a strange new alphabet for the cipher could be motivated by the desire to protect the identity of the author(s). Normal characters can be matched against the existing handwriting to attempt identifying the author. You can't identify the author if the whole text is written in an invented alphabet. I think it's possible that even the characters that are similar to the existing European numbers or abbreviations (y, l, etc) are written in the Voynich Manuscript in a specific peculiar way to suppress the normal writing habits.
If the above it true, then this can only work if the script is only used for the codex and never again and certainly doesn't appear in any plaintext documents.