Mark Knowles > 10-05-2023, 12:02 PM
Mark Knowles > 11-05-2023, 09:49 AM
RenegadeHealer > 11-05-2023, 12:38 PM
(08-05-2023, 11:17 AM)Mark Knowles Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.(08-05-2023, 10:53 AM)ReneZ Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.If the Voynich MS were a regular cipher from the late middle ages, even a relatively complicated one, then these cribs would have been extremely helpful.
Obviously this depends what one means by 'regular'.
ReneZ > 11-05-2023, 01:05 PM
Mark Knowles > 11-05-2023, 01:28 PM
(11-05-2023, 12:38 PM)RenegadeHealer Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.(08-05-2023, 11:17 AM)Mark Knowles Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.(08-05-2023, 10:53 AM)ReneZ Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.If the Voynich MS were a regular cipher from the late middle ages, even a relatively complicated one, then these cribs would have been extremely helpful.
Obviously this depends what one means by 'regular'.
So one cannot rule out the possibility that the VMs in fact isn’t a cipher, but just resembles one, perhaps by design.
(11-05-2023, 12:38 PM)RenegadeHealer Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.I agree with David Jackson that the work of Ramon Llull, and his students and followers, is a potentially promising lead, when looking for novel ways a late medieval writer might have designed a newer and better cipher from scratch.
Mark Knowles > 11-05-2023, 01:39 PM
Mark Knowles > 11-05-2023, 06:09 PM
(11-05-2023, 06:04 PM)R. Sale Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.There is only this one image here.
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R. Sale > 11-05-2023, 06:19 PM
Mark Knowles > 11-05-2023, 06:41 PM
(11-05-2023, 06:19 PM)R. Sale Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Off hand, i don't recall seeing an abbot on a flying horse in any other book of hours. Perhaps, you have also had the opportunity to see if the text has anything unusual?