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My thoughts after discovering Voynich 10 years ago
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My thoughts after discovering Voynich 10 years ago
sunflowerleaf > 30-03-2025, 02:25 AM
Hello, I am a person who found out about the voynich manuscript 10 years ago, and although I haven't been actively trying to solve it since then, it has been a mystery that stuck at the back of my mind. And I would like to share my thoughts that I have concluded after this time of being familiar with the manuscript. Feel free to argue/criticize my claims.
I feel almost certain that the voynich manuscript is a medical manuscript. The reason why I came to this conclusion is because the parts of the manuscript fits excellent with the parts that would be included in a medical manuscript of it's time, while any other kind of manuscript doesn't make as much sense, so by using the exclusion method, I believe a medical manuscript is the most logical solution.
The parts in questions are what I consider to be the herbal sections, cosmological section, astrological section, mappa mundi, and anatomical section with the humours. To me, it also makes the most logical sense why someone in the 1400s would encode a medical manuscript, due to taboos of the time as well as protecting secrets.
I believe that not only the text is concealed, but also the images, and that's why they look so weird. While I think it makes sense to look for geographical influences in the images, I think people are making a mistake when they try to interpret the images literally, because clearly they aren't depicted directly. It makes sense to me that they are drawn oddly, because if they weren't, the medical secrets and potential taboos that the text wants to keep hidden, could be revealed by the images, and the person who created the manuscript clearly wanted to keep the content hidden. -
RE: My thoughts after discovering Voynich 10 years ago
ReneZ > 30-03-2025, 07:45 AM
(30-03-2025, 02:25 AM)sunflowerleaf Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Feel free to argue/criticize my claims.
It is a common thought that it would make sense to hide (encrypt) important medical information.
The problem with that is that this was essentially never done. There are only a handful of individual phrases among thousands of medical manuscripts (probably more like hundreds when constrained to the Voynich MS date +/- 50 years).