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• RE: The first glyph of every line – a hint at a cipher?

  dashstofsk > 7 hours ago

  (9 hours ago)JoJo_Jost Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.too structured to be a hoax

  
  I feel that structure must be a necessary requirement for a successful hoax. The writer wanted to give the manuscript a semblance of a genuine piece of writing. Otherwise unstructured random writing would have been quickly dismissed as a fraud.

• RE: The first glyph of every line – a hint at a cipher?

  JoJo_Jost > 1 hour ago

  (7 hours ago)dashstofsk Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.

  (9 hours ago)JoJo_Jost Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.too structured to be a hoax

  I feel that structure must be a necessary requirement for a successful hoax. The writer wanted to give the manuscript a semblance of a genuine piece of writing. Otherwise unstructured random writing would have been quickly dismissed as a fraud.

  
  
  I see your point, and it’s a good one, but I seriously wonder whether, around 1430—a time when only relatively simple ciphers were known—anyone would have gone to such lengths?
  
  Because one thing is clear: if it’s a hoax, then it must be extremely well-structured, and I’m afraid that’s an anachronism.
  
  If it is a cipher, then the extremely good structure underlying it is precisely the language.
  
  And that is why I am not a believer in the hoax theory...
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