Yesterday, 12:24 PM
(Yesterday, 12:07 PM)Ruby Novacna wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.
And above all, do not forget that, in theory, this is 15th-century vocabulary.
Absolutely.
I am a firm believer in constantly re-evaluating assumptions.
Do we know for sure that Jacobus de Tepenecz was not able to read the Voynich Manuscript?
Do we assume that everyone who was able to read Latin was also able to read their native language?
I am not an expert on the history of the Czech language so if I get something wrong, please let me know.
I had never even heard of Jan Hus before a year or so ago when I started investigating the history of the Voynich Manuscript. As I understand it, the writing of the Czech language was undergoing a lot of changes around the time that the Voynich Manuscript is generally thought to have been created.
I assume that Jacobus de Tepenecz and those after him, if they did know written Czech, it would have been the post-Jan Hus version.
Maybe they did try a simple substitution of Voynichese to post-Jan Hus Czech and failed. Or maybe they thought the text in the Voynich Manuscript was Latin and never thought to try Czech.