The Hee-he(Ha) Manuscript

[Benaki]

I wanted to share with you a visual aspect of a page. I'm a visual person and i wanted to play with photoshop and try to understand what the text would look like if some characters/letters would be completely removed. So I started removing the characters and I got carried away, as you can see in the pictures below, removing characters based on their shape and frequency.

      
   
   
   
   
   
   



I got carried away

[Aga Tentakulus]

Exactly.....
ho...ho...ho.....
.... it's nearly Christmas.

[merrimacga]

It does look like it's laughing at us, doesn't it? You may be on to something here... Hmm...

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[Benaki]

It does look like it's laughing at us, doesn't it? You may be on to something here... Hmm...

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Thank you for your answer. Yes the text on the last image is really like it's laughing at us.  I really don't know if it means anything at all or if i'm on to something. i'm just trying non- conventional methods and posting kind of interesting results

[ReneZ]

Quite a few years ago, a poster on Nick Pelling's cipher mysteries blog made a very similar analysis.
He observed a rather regular distribution of "c" characters, and based on this he argued that the MS was a fake, or at least had meaningless content.

Unfortunately, the poster's name escapes me right now, but it is someone who has a bit of a reputation in the crypto world.

[Benaki]

Quite a few years ago, a poster on Nick Pelling's cipher mysteries blog made a very similar analysis.
He observed a rather regular distribution of "c" characters, and based on this he argued that the MS was a fake, or at least had meaningless content.

Unfortunately, the poster's name escapes me right now, but it is someone who has a bit of a reputation in the crypto world.

Thank you for this information. i haven't read any of his work but i will have a look on his analysis.

[lelle]

...
Unfortunately, the poster's name escapes me right now, but it is someone who has a bit of a reputation in the crypto world.

That is probably Tony Gaffney / Sean Palmer you're thinking of.

[ReneZ]

That is probably Tony Gaffney / Sean Palmer you're thinking of.

Thanks, Tony Gaffney indeed.