-JKP- > 09-05-2020, 12:54 AM
Quote:In order to be able to understand this, it is necessary for one to know that the current Latin nomenclature for plants was only introduced around the middle of the 18th century, predominantly based on the printed botanical works dating from the 16th and 17th centuries. The Voynich Manuscript, however, dates from the 15th century. Was the usual Latin name, utilised for a peony at that time, also Paeonia? Did a common designation even exist at that time?
-JKP- > 09-05-2020, 01:00 AM
Paul Weiler Wrote:The source language of the Voynich Manuscript is indeed Latin! To be more precise: pure, unadulterated Latin.
-JKP- > 09-05-2020, 01:15 AM
Paul Weiler Wrote:This folding technique, which one knows from art books or children's books today, is an unparalleled method which cannot be found in the Middle Ages.
-JKP- > 09-05-2020, 01:34 AM
Paul Weiler Wrote:Its contents are very difficult to interpret as there are no known structures of objects depicted on it.
-JKP- > 09-05-2020, 01:39 AM
Paul Weiler Wrote:There are virtually no deletions or additions throughout the whole manuscript.
R. Sale > 09-05-2020, 03:39 AM
ReneZ > 09-05-2020, 05:12 AM
-JKP- > 09-05-2020, 06:30 AM
-JKP- > 09-05-2020, 06:43 AM
Quote:But what was however concealed during the initial presentation of this secret code alphabet is a special feature, which we can see in the last characters of the cipher: Strangely enough, the alphabet does not conclude with the letter z, [font=verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif]rather more it lists three additional characters, namely abbreviation characters for »et«, »us« and »tur«.[/font]
Quote:I determined, a few weeks later on, that I was not the first to do this. As early as 2017, a British researcher published a study paper regarding the Voynich code, which concluded that it had been based on the Lexicon Abbreviaturarum.
-JKP- > 09-05-2020, 07:12 AM
Quote:This latter method for transmitting secret communications was already sufficiently well known in the Middle Ages, as examples from the aforementioned Stenography work by the Benedictine Abbot Johannes Trithemius clearly indicate.
Quote:[font=verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif]The position where the abbreviation character9 never however occurs, in common medieval utilisation, is at the end of the word.[/font]
Quote:[font=verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif]If one takes into account the various Latin declination possibilities, there are well over 40,000 cases (counting according to a search engine for Latin vocabulary with the meaningful name Enigma, which we will learn more about later in this book), in which a Latin word ends on the letter[i]e[/i] followed by any preferred final consonant (mostly [i]m, n, s, r[/i] or [i]t[/i]), this thereby clarifies why we so frequently encounter this character at the end of words in the Voynich text. [/font][/font][/font][/font]