Re: VMs: cathars?

[jean-yves artero <jyartero@xxxxxxxx>]

Hi Nick and Christine,

 

Courtesy of Jacques and Jorge, here is Jacques Guy's relevant paper:

 

http://www.dcc.unicamp.br/~stolfi/voynich/mirror/reeds/gillogly/levitov

 

Here is an other version:

 

http://www.skepticfiles.org/mys3/levitov.htm

 

Hélas, I think that Levitov is wrong. His "translation" for instance has hardly something to do with the Parfaits. Otherwise if you are interested in Catharism, Christine, here are some true texts:

 

http://www.gnosis.org/library/cathtx.htm

 

Regards,

 

Jean

Nick Pelling <nickpelling@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi Christine,
>
> At 19:00 11/09/2004 -0400, Christine wrote:
> >I came across this message from 1996 on an alchemy list at
> >http://www.levity.com/alchemy/frm1150.html
> >
> >From: Tom Hennessy
> > >I am wondering if anyone knows a little about the Voynich Manuscript? A
> > >man named Levitov seemed to have come up with a 'cypher' for the work but I
> > >have not been able to find this translation. Did he ever completely finish
> > >the translation or did he just solve the cypher?
> > >It is supposed to be a Cathar manuscript called the 'Endura'.
> >
> >Has anything further been uncovered regarding the VMs and the Cathars?
>
> Dennis Stallings' (1998) debunking of Levitov's claim is fairly comprehensive:-
> http://www.geocities.com/ctesibos/voynich/levitov2.htm
>
> Also: I'm not sure if Jacques Guy's "On L!
> evitov's
>  Decipherment of the 
> Voynich Manuscript" paper is on the web anywhere - the rand site (which was 
> hosting it) was taken down a long time ago & the file's not in the Wayback 
> Machine. :-(
>
> AFAIK, no-one is actively promoting a VMs-Cathar link ATM, probably due to 
> lack of any supporting evidence - while it's a hopelessly romantic idea, 
> it's also probably a hopeless idea as well (sadly). Oh well. :-p
>
> Cheers, .....Nick Pelling..... 
>
>
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