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Is the Voynich Manuscript encrypted (encoded, enciphered)? (April 2024)

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• Is the Voynich Manuscript encrypted (encoded, enciphered)? (April 2024)

  pjburkshire > 06-04-2024, 02:16 PM

  Is the Voynich Manuscript encrypted (encoded, enciphered)? (April 2024)
  
  I think the Voynich Manuscript...
  
  - is a constructed language.
  - is encrypted and the base language is Latin.
  - is encrypted and the base language is a non-Latin European language.
  - is encrypted and the base language is a non-European language.
  - is encrypted but I don't know the base language.
  - is not encrypted but an unknown script of an unidentified natural language.
  - is not a human language but written by mermaids/angels/extraterrestrials/etc.
  - is something meaningful but other than the above options.
  - is meaningless, all you people were duped by a hoax.
  - Don't know / Not sure / No comment.

• RE: Is the Voynich Manuscript encrypted (encoded, enciphered)? (April 2024)

  pjburkshire > 06-04-2024, 02:20 PM

  Poll is set to close in 21 days; Saturday, April 27, 2024.

• RE: Is the Voynich Manuscript encrypted (encoded, enciphered)? (April 2024)

  Mark Knowles > 06-04-2024, 03:22 PM

  I have put "is encrypted and the base language is Latin" as that is what I think most likely. However this is my guess. Maybe I should have put "is encrypted but I don't know the base language" as that would probably be my position in practice.

• RE: Is the Voynich Manuscript encrypted (encoded, enciphered)? (April 2024)

  merrimacga > 07-04-2024, 05:21 AM

  I like the second to last option. ;-)
  
  But I selected "is something meaningful but other than the above options". To be more exact, I currently think it is either encrypted or in an unknown script and in dialects of two or more contemporaneous natural languages and I wouldn't yet rule out Latin being one of those languages. There aren't many possibilities I am willing to rule out at this point except that I think the most complicated ones are the least likely. Assuming, of course, it isn't actually a hoax or a meaningless text, which I currently think is even less likely, given what it would take to produce either one by or before 1912 when Voynich acquired it.

• RE: Is the Voynich Manuscript encrypted (encoded, enciphered)? (April 2024)

  Koen G > 07-04-2024, 10:13 AM

  I'm the only one who doesn't know 

• RE: Is the Voynich Manuscript encrypted (encoded, enciphered)? (April 2024)

  Pepper > 12-04-2024, 11:51 AM

  The more I learn about the VMS, the less sure I am about anything. The only thing I'm completely satisfied with is that it's a genuine 15th century document and not a modern hoax.
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