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Re: VMs: Blanks
Philip Neal wrote:
>
> a) There are known to exist today only two manuscripts of mediaeval European
> origin, written in ink on animal skin and bound into a codex, which are
> written entirely in an otherwise unknown script.
>
> a1) The two manuscripts are an enciphering of a Latin plaintext by a
> fifteenth century author and the encipherment is the kind of encryption
> called a simple substitution cipher. Somebody bought one of the two
> manuscripts and easily deciphered it, and that happened in the eighteenth
> century. If the VMS was anything so simple it would have been explained by
> now.
I'm curious, Philip. What are these two manuscripts?
Dennis
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