Mark Knowles > 21-05-2020, 03:38 PM
Stephen Carlson > 21-05-2020, 03:49 PM
(21-05-2020, 03:38 PM)Mark Knowles Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.I was wondering if anyone had explored the idea that Voynichese words are a code for looking up other words from a different text such as the bible. I would guess this has been thought about.Before the advent of printing, the Bible didn't really have a standard text.
Mark Knowles > 21-05-2020, 04:20 PM
(21-05-2020, 03:49 PM)Stephen Carlson Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Well maybe there was another document with a standard text or maybe they used a specific bible text even though there was no standard.(21-05-2020, 03:38 PM)Mark Knowles Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.I was wondering if anyone had explored the idea that Voynichese words are a code for looking up other words from a different text such as the bible. I would guess this has been thought about.Before the advent of printing, the Bible didn't really have a standard text.
Koen G > 21-05-2020, 04:31 PM
Mark Knowles > 21-05-2020, 04:51 PM
(21-05-2020, 04:31 PM)Koen G Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.The Bible is hardly standard now, with all the You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. available. If the VM code refers to words in another book, our efforts are doomed unless we know the exact manuscript that was used. (And even then...)
-JKP- > 21-05-2020, 08:30 PM
ReneZ > 22-05-2020, 04:54 AM
(21-05-2020, 03:38 PM)Mark Knowles Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.I was wondering if anyone had explored the idea that Voynichese words are a code for looking up other words from a different text such as the bible. I would guess this has been thought about.
Mark Knowles > 22-05-2020, 12:42 PM
(22-05-2020, 04:54 AM)ReneZ Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.This type of cipher is only conceivable in the presence of reasonably easily available printed books, i.e. well after the creation of the Voynich MS.
ReneZ > 22-05-2020, 02:38 PM
Mark Knowles > 22-05-2020, 04:48 PM
(22-05-2020, 02:38 PM)ReneZ Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Mark, did you read the links?
The whole idea can only be conceived in the presence of standard printed text.