Research that needs to be done / research ideas.

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it's an argument against people who claim it's too much work

Hrmpf.  I grant you that much.

(But have you seen the Educational Anecdote I posted a while ago about the five scholars and the cows of Scotland? )

Kicking from my side, that example should give pause to people who believe the VMS is encrypted and expect it to be be error-free.

So the Borg book seems to be a patchwork of excerpts from 4-5 different books.  Is there anything else published about who could be the author who compiled and encrypted it?

Is the "illuminati" in the title really "illustrated", as the prof quoted in the thesis said?  IIRC, the book has no illustrations.  Could it be something like "[for/from] those with knowledge"?

All the best, --stolfi

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"Rene Zandbergen
on February 17, 2016 at 8:08 am said:
Actually, what is just a bit intriguing is an entry on the German wiki page about him:

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that he ended up at the court of Rudolf II. If this is true then, given his apparent interest in cipher, he could be entry #142 on the list of people who might have brought the Voynich MS to Prague.

On the Italian version:

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we read that he returned to Rome in 1614 and seems to have lost his mind by 1616.

However, his name does not seem to appear in the enormously long list at the ‘Documenta Rudolfina’ website:
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so one may doubt……"