John Dee Exhibit 2016

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Another figure that might have come in contact with the Voynich Manuscript or a remote chance Authored it was John Dee.  In fact, he was born to Welsh man, Roland Dee and perhaps new the Welsh Language.  John Dee was an Astrologer, Numerologist, Alchemist, Scientist and involved with the Occult.  Below is a doodle by Dee's hand and what is interesting is the two Voynich glyph's at the end of two words.  Dee and Kelly were welcomed into Rudolf the II court.





John Dee interested with encryption:

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Another figure that might have come in contact with the Voynich Manuscript or a remote chance Authored it was John Dee.  In fact, he was born to Welsh man, Roland Dee and perhaps new the Welsh Language.  John Dee was an Astrologer, Numerologist, Alchemist, Scientist and involved with the Occult.  Below is a doodle by Dee's hand and what is interesting is the two Voynich glyph's at the end of two words.  Dee and Kelly were welcomed into Rudolf the II court.



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The shapes at the ends of the words were ubiquitous in Gothic scripts of the late 14th, 15th and early 16th centuries and some of these shapes, especially those common to Gothic cursiva, continued to be used for quite some time into the Renaissance and beyond.

In the late middle ages, European handwriting that didn't have these abbreviations and flourishes was actually less common than hands that did.


Even in modern scripts, we still sometimes see "w" with a tail over it (or a line over it) to represent the word "with", which is just one example of a hold-over from medieval abbreviations.

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Another figure that might have come in contact with the Voynich Manuscript or a remote chance Authored it was John Dee.  In fact, he was born to Welsh man, Roland Dee and perhaps new the Welsh Language.  John Dee was an Astrologer, Numerologist, Alchemist, Scientist and involved with the Occult.  Below is a doodle by Dee's hand and what is interesting is the two Voynich glyph's at the end of two words.  Dee and Kelly were welcomed into Rudolf the II court.



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The shapes at the ends of the words were ubiquitous in Gothic scripts of the late 14th, 15th and early 16th centuries and some of these shapes, especially those common to Gothic cursiva, continued to be used for quite some time into the Renaissance and beyond.

In the late middle ages, European handwriting that didn't have these abbreviations and flourishes was actually less common than hands that did.


Even in modern scripts, we still sometimes see "w" with a tail over it (or a line over it) to represent the word "with", which is just one example of a hold-over from medieval abbreviations.

Then why does the two words express Class and Navigate? If so would it read, "Class with Navigation, navigate with"?

[Helmut Winkler]

I think it is "Classium navigatio", Latin classis -  English fleet in the sense of Navy

[Emma May Smith]

The first Englishman to have anything to do with the Voynich manuscript was...Wilfrid Voynich.

[Diane]

The first Englishman to have anything to do with the Voynich manuscript was...Wilfrid Voynich

Emma,
We don't know that; it could be true, but it may not be.  If you want to take Mnishovsky's story as true, then even though it can't be a Roger Bacon autograph, it remains possible that the content came from one of Bacon's works, or something in his library.

 I'm not saying it's so, but it's not something to dismiss in the absence of any effort to do the necessary research - which at present no-one is doing.  There's also the fact that a specialist  in Dee's variable and idiosyncratic hand  identified the 'Arab' numerals as in Dee's hand.

There's no need to posit that Mnishovsky's alleged allegations are so: there's no evidence at all that Rudolf so much as saw it.  But Dee was certainly in Prague and might have brought, or seen it.  

It's true that Wilfrid was the first (naturalised) Englishman certainly to have owned it.

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Another figure that might have come in contact with the Voynich Manuscript or a remote chance Authored it was John Dee.  In fact, he was born to Welsh man, Roland Dee and perhaps new the Welsh Language.  John Dee was an Astrologer, Numerologist, Alchemist, Scientist and involved with the Occult.  Below is a doodle by Dee's hand and what is interesting is the two Voynich glyph's at the end of two words.  Dee and Kelly were welcomed into Rudolf the II court.



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The shapes at the ends of the words were ubiquitous in Gothic scripts of the late 14th, 15th and early 16th centuries and some of these shapes, especially those common to Gothic cursiva, continued to be used for quite some time into the Renaissance and beyond.

In the late middle ages, European handwriting that didn't have these abbreviations and flourishes was actually less common than hands that did.


Even in modern scripts, we still sometimes see "w" with a tail over it (or a line over it) to represent the word "with", which is just one example of a hold-over from medieval abbreviations.

Then why does the two words express Class and Navigate? If so would it read, "Class with Navigation, navigate with"?

Tom, I didn't say the word in Dee's writing was "with". Read my post again. It was an example.


I said that these forms of abbreviations were ubiquitous in the middle ages and that we continue to use some of them up until the present time. The word "with" illustrates how we still use a line or swooped-back tail to indicate that letters are missing (as was common in medieval abbreviations).

The tails that swoop up mean something different in each language but they are all used in roughly the same way. They mean that the ending letters are missing (as in "w" with a line for "with") or that the letters just before the last letters are missing. In some cases, they are merely flourishes.


You cannot assume that John Dee's writing matches or looks like the VMS script simply because Dee used common flourishes and abbreviation conventions that existed in the 15th century and continued to be used, in a more limited way, in succeeding centuries. Handwriting has to be studied and compared in much more depth and preferably with additional samples. The similarities you pointed out are superficial. They are not "Voynich glyphs" they are 15th-, 16th-, and sometimes 17th-century glyphs.

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Possible Signature found in Folio 1r.  Could it be his signature in Welsh and English?

[Aga Tentakulus]

On the subject of John Dee
Yesterday a documentary about alchemy "Mystery of the Middle Ages" was published on Phönix ( german ).
Also John Dee, alchemist of the queen in search of the "Philosopher's Stone" was mentioned. In order to find the elixir of life.
Interesting views on alchemy, and how Dee stumbled over his own discovery. Making gold.
Documentary in german.