Re: VMs: Medieval Cryptography Info

[Rene Zandbergen <r_zandbergen@xxxxxxxxx>]

--- Eric <mynumberis2000@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Was searching for data on Hildegard and her Litterae
> Ignota and Lingua Ignota and found this site:
> 
>
http://www.geschichte.uni-muenchen.de/ghw/geheimschriften/einf.shtml

Excellent site indeed! (I guess it helps if one can
read it
 :-) )

Just click on any link that says 'Beispiel', which
means 'example'. Look at example 6 which refers
to a codex in Vienna (it is not, as a I first through,
Tranchedino, but seems similar). Look at the
emperor's handwriting and see if it reminds you
of the 'oladabas' page :-)
  
The site does start by saying that such codes were
almost exclusively used in 'diplomatic' environments,
and not for private secrets. 

>  Just looking at some of the manuscript images is
> very interesting though.

And there are plenty of them. See also example
10 for a 'word game'. A pretty pointless example,
since nobody can be misled about what is being
written there. Thus, one should be careful rejecting
hypotheses about the Voynich MS on the basis that
they would not be sensible.

> For diplomatic codes, there's from around 1470:
> 
>
http://www.geschichte.uni-muenchen.de/ghw/geheimschriften/g11_gross.shtml

This is a discussion of Trachedino's work, whom he
consistently calls Tanchredino, such that our 
searches never turned up this site.

Cheers, Rene


		
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