Re: VMs: Medieval Cryptography Info

[Eric <mynumberis2000@xxxxxxxxx>]

--- Rene Zandbergen <r_zandbergen@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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 :-)

You are referring to the final comment which says
(pardon my German) "I thought (selbs - this?)"? Yes,
as a final comment by the author, it would seem
appropos.


> >  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.

Yes, I found it funny that such a simple word game was
used (and how often it has been mentioned as a
possibility for the VMS)...


Can you shed any light on the first example:

http://www.geschichte.uni-muenchen.de/ghw/geheimschriften/g1.shtml

It looks like a basic character substitution chart but
I don't understand the wheel figures in the right
margin...?

Thanks,
:Eric




		
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