davidjackson > 20-09-2019, 11:48 AM
(20-09-2019, 11:35 AM)Anton Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Personal safety is a good motivatorYes, but the proof is in the pudding - you make enemies by having more clients, not because you have a bunch of personal recipes.
Monica Yokubinas > 20-09-2019, 11:50 AM
(20-09-2019, 10:40 AM)-JKP- Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Perhaps it was because they knew Latin so well that it looked strange to them (despite the commonalities in glyphs). They couldn't read it.
To me it looks like real effort was put into designing the VMS script. I don't mean just the glyphs, mainly I mean the way the whole thing was put together. When you really study it, there is just enough complexity and variation from line to line and folio to folio to suggest there is SOMETHING there (what that something is, I don't know).
Personally, I don't think it is a cipher in the more common medieval sense.
Monica's take on it is that it's a Romanized alphabet, which is not a cipher.
Anton > 20-09-2019, 12:49 PM
(20-09-2019, 11:48 AM)davidjackson Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.(20-09-2019, 11:35 AM)Anton Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Personal safety is a good motivatorYes, but the proof is in the pudding - you make enemies by having more clients, not because you have a bunch of personal recipes.
As bi3mw says, you might encrypt the secret recipe bit, but not the whole book.
davidjackson > 20-09-2019, 01:01 PM
(20-09-2019, 12:49 PM)Anton Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Many of us make use of file encryption when storing sensitive information. Why would not a medieval person follow that same concept?File encryption is easy and automated. Plus, we are all reminded on a daily basis of the dangers of information security.
-JKP- > 20-09-2019, 01:36 PM
Mark Knowles > 20-09-2019, 01:43 PM
(20-09-2019, 11:20 AM)bi3mw Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Why write a whole manuscript pretending to be something it is not? With regard to most of the illustrations, one could assume at first glance that the content contains little that would have to be kept secret. Unless, for example, it is a manuscript for the production of Theriac or something like that (secret herbal ingredients, secret manufacturing process, recipes). In any case, the encryption of such a large amount of text requires a high degree of motivation. The vanity of the author(s) would certainly have been satisfied with a few lines.
(20-09-2019, 01:36 PM)-JKP- Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.René linked to a manuscript of medical recipes (in Latin) that was written entirely in a substitution cipher.
-JKP- > 20-09-2019, 01:50 PM
Mark Knowles > 20-09-2019, 02:16 PM
(20-09-2019, 01:50 PM)-JKP- Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.The impression I have of Fontana is he was showcasing his skills.
-JKP- > 20-09-2019, 03:21 PM
(20-09-2019, 02:16 PM)Mark Knowles Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view....
Often motivations in life are complicated. There can be a mixture of different motivations. The reason that one person does one thing may be difficult for another person to understand. An individual may not even understand their own motivations.
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Helmut Winkler > 20-09-2019, 03:58 PM