Re: VMs: Medieval Cryptography Info

["Dennis S." <tsalagi@xxxxxxxx>]

From: Eric 

>(Oh, and for Hildegard, just been considering that if
>the VMS author used their own character set and a
>limited new language/vocabulary mixed in with an
>existing language (such as Hildegard), how would we go
>about determining this was the case and then
>deciphering it?)

   I don't know.  

   A long time ago, someone had a Master's thesis on the Web on Hildegard's Lingua Ignota.  They had a long list of vocabulary.  Her Lingua Ignota contained nothing but nouns, all transparently derived from Latin and German,  so it didn't amount to much.  

   Ramon Llull also had an artificial language, but I don't know anything about it.  Robert Firth gave me a reference on the microfilm of Llull's manuscript on it, but I can't find it right now.  

Dennis
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