Re: VMs: Medieval Cryptography Info

[Rene Zandbergen <r_zandbergen@xxxxxxxxx>]

--- Eric <mynumberis2000@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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

He wrote: I though of this myself, i.e. it is a
code designed by the emperor personally. It
is not clear to what extent he did, maybe he just
made up the characters himself. The handwriting looks
quite similar to the marginalia in the VMs.
The curator of the Strahov library in Prague also
identified the handwriting on f116v of the
VMs as late 15th, early 16th century, and Central
European. Well before Kelly's or Sinapius' days.

> 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...?

The German text explains that it is a collection
of encoding systems: a frequently used Runic
alphabet called Aethicus, two other freely invented
alphabets and eight other 'systems'.
It is from England, 1109/1110, i.e. well before
Roger Bacon's days.

The short poem is an example of a text with a
changing code, and says that one should encode
messages carefully.

To me this is quite interesting for the following
reason: one of the arguments why Voynich pointed
to Roger Bacon as the author of the VMs is that
Bacon wrote that one would be crazy not to encode
his important writings. Here we see that such 
warnings were already used by others, about
200 years earlier.
 
Cheers, Rene



		
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