Some Short Observations On The Meaning Code Language And History Of The Voynich Manuscript
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Some Short Observations on the Meaning, Code, Language and History of the Voynich Manuscript
Author: Robert Czoelner
language: en
Publisher: Independently Published
Release Date: 2022-09-12
When I first knew by chance about the manuscript which nobody can't read or understand its content, I felt curious to know more about the misterious manuscript, but I had no intention to decipher its text or understand the meaning of its illustrations. From time to time I had a look at articles written about the Voynich manuscript, but, at a certain point, I felt that it was impossible to say something definitely about the cipher and its content and desisted. The more I read less I didn't understand and felt much less sure about its meaning since everything was contradictory and vague.
The Voynich Manuscript as an Example of Oligo-Agglutinative Pasigraphy, Vol. I: A Fuzzy Set Approach to Decryption
Class III problems are considered practically unsolvable in cryptology, but none has resisted cryptanalytic attack as persistently as the Voynich Manuscript. In the first installment of this 4-volume set, we present the linguistic and affix analysis that preceded the first complete but approximate translation of the entire manuscript. This contrasts with the piecemeal approach of all prior solutions that resulted in wildly divergent translations of minuscule selections of the text. This systemic attack on the entirety of the text and its unusual distributional features (such as extreme platykurtia, which forbid translation into any natural language) resulted first in superior transcription stability and an equally stable symbol set, based on intensive statistical analysis. The encoding scheme employs a 20-22 letter alphabetic script that most closely resembles a slot-and-filler, top-down, a priori pasigraphic system, with oligo-agglutinative features that are currently only considered a theoretical possibility in the linguistics field. The intricate affixing system is based mainly on precise placement of single letters to denote case roles, semantic classes and 3 primary parts of speech (exhibiting a strong noun surfeit). At the phrase level we find dominant SOV order and head-final, dependent-marked grammar compatible with heavily formatted, inline pharmaceutical lists; these result in short ranges of actionable information, which no competing solution can claim. Plant descriptions are demoted in comparison to other herbals, in favor of processing and dispensing details. This approximate solution is based on fuzzy set analysis techniques integrated with linguistic universals, a wide range of common statistics (Pareto and Sukhotin scores, Zipf slopes, Indexes of Coincidence, Agglutination and Synthesis and dozens of others) and many home-brewed fuzzy algorithms implemented in T-SQL and VB.Net, after the inadequacy of many advanced data mining techniques was demonstrated. Our methodology was validated when the project reached an inflection point, beyond which we were able to predict the identities and properties of plants based on the text alone. The project ended with plausible identification candidates for 121 of 126 herbal section plants and 7 others elsewhere in the manuscript, far beyond that of other published solutions. An incredible 100% of the 133 identified plants have dermatological uses. These can be divided into prominent subtopics like treatment of bites; anthelmintics; rheumatism and other musculo-skeletal ailments; inflammatory skin disorders; external and possibly menstrual bleeding; excision of blemishes; application of cosmetics; and cures dispensable in baths. The centerpiece of the manuscript is the "Rosette Folio," which depicts the grand design of a medieval bathhouse, keyed to specific astrological timings also defined by satellite diagrams following a precedence hierarchy. Each of these uses exhibit telltale polygraph correlations that fall into a handful of semantic hierarchies constructed from highly similar bases, such as skin color based diagnostic criteria, remedies/solutions, problems/diseases, plant parts and the like. These findings require 2 volumes to demonstrate and another volume of data and other supplementary material. Despite this complexity, they culminate in a drastic simplification of the script and the first-ever comprehensive translation of the Voynich Manuscript in Volume IV, albeit at low resolution.
New Research on the Voynich Manuscript
Author: NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY.
language: en
Publisher: Nimble Books
Release Date: 2020-10-20
The Voynich manuscript is famous among enthusiasts of arcana, rare books, and cryptography. It is a 200+ page color rare book written in a cipher that has resisted decryption to this day. It is named after a Polish rare book dealer who surfaced the manuscript in 1912. Its history and provenance are uncertain. Many people have been proposed as possible authors, among them Roger Bacon, John Dee or Edward Kelley, Giovanni Fontana, and Voynich. This 80-page book contains the proceedings of a one-day seminar on the Voynich manuscript, held in Washington, DC on 30 November 1976, notable for the prominence of personnel of the National Security Agency, which was at the time even more deeply shrouded in secrecy than it remains today. The contents include: General Introduction. Very Filby, Sponsor. Introductory Remarks. M.E. D'Imperio, Moderator. A Linguistic Approach to the Voynich Text. James Child. Some Important New Statistical Findings. Capt. Prescott Currier. Suggestions Toward a Decipherment of the "Key". Dr. Sydney Fairbanks. The Solution Claim of Dr. Robert S. Brumbaugh. M. E. D'Imperio. Further Details of New Statistical Findings. Capt. Prescott Currier. Questions and Discussion. Appendix A. The Voynich Manuscript, Some Notes and Observations. Capt. Prescott Currier. Appendix B. What Constitutes Proof? Stuart H. Buck. The Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requires that each federal agency maintain an electronic Reading Room with most frequently requested documents. The FOIA Reading Room series presents selected items from each agency's Reading Room, in this case, the National Security Agency, whose many cryptographers have maintained an interest in the Voynich manuscript for many decades. Readers who enjoy works like THE DA VINCI CODE, PUZZLE PALACE, and SNOWDEN will find this an appealing purchase. Why was the NSA deeply interested in the Voynich manuscript in 1976? What were they thinking? There is no substitute for looking at primary documents and real-time work product to understand how people's minds were actually working in history.