VMs: Re: New guy on the block

["DANA SCOTT" <dscott520@xxxxxxx>]

Hello Dan and Welcome,

There is truly a great wealth of information available both on the internet
and in publications. Perhaps a good place to start would be with the
following:

(just type in voynich as the search argument and then Go)
http://highway49.library.yale.edu/photonegatives/

Also, take a look at

http://www.voynich.nu/
http://web.bham.ac.uk/G.Landini/evmt/evmt.htm

(click on Cancel if prompted to install Japanese language pack)
(refer to f1r for contents of the first folio of the VMS manuscript)
http://www.voynich.com/pages/index.htm


Regards,
Dana Scott


----- Original Message -----
From: "dangibson" <canbooks@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <vms-list@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2003 12:08 AM
Subject: VMs: New guy on the block


>
> Hello:
>
> I'm very new to this, so please accept my barging into your April fool's
> jokes. Thankfully that date is past, so hopefully I can get some serious
> answers to my questions.
>
> First, let me introduce myself. My name is Dan Gibson. I've done lots of
> things during my life, among them cryptology. I am also acquainted with
> a number of ancient and modern languages. While researching another
> topic yesterday, I stumbled across several web pages about the Voynich
> manuscript. To say the least, I am completely intrigued. I would love to
> tackle this project, but I have several questions that I hoped someone
> here might be able to help me with.
>
> First off, is there access to primary source material? As this is
> obviously a technical book, I would like access to the first couple of
> pages of the book, which I would hope contain the least amount of
> technical vocabulary. I would assume that the writer would write some
> sort of introduction, however brief. This would be the most useful
> material to start from. Are photographs of this material available? I am
> particularly interested in how they are laid out on the page.
>
> Second, I noticed some discrepancies between the EVA font, (which I've
> downloaded) and the work done by John Stojko, on his web page "The
> Cipher, from Letters to God's Eye" in 1978. On this web page, John tries
> to compare the script found in the Voynich manuscript with Ukrainian.
> Why do his letters differ significantly from those found in the Eva
> font? Is it possible that the EVA font is flawed? It seems that some of
> the letters, (F and Z for instance) in the EVA font are actually the
> same character.
>
> The EVA font apparently contains only 11 characters, John Stojko has 20
> in his chart. Am I not manipulating the EVA font correctly?
>
> I'm looking forward to your replies.
>
> Dan Gibson
>
>
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