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Hi James: Sorry it has been a few months, but nonetheless I thought I would reply to your post: As far as testing any proposed translation, my personal test is a two step method which I derived from the book "The Shakespearian Ciphers Examined", by William and Elizebeth Friedman. For any solution......

On Wednesday, March 11, 2026, an online conference titled “Voynich Zoom” will take place. This event is part of the long-running “Cipher Zoom” series, organized several times a year by a team of international colleagues. Start time: 18:00 CET / 12:00 Eastern Expected duration: approximately 4 hours ...

In the comments below my blog post of September, 2015, "The 1665 Marci Letter: A Forgery?", Thomas Ernst has posted a series of comments carefully explaining why the Latin of that letter (the one Voynich claimed to have found in the Voynich, of course) is problematic in ways that would never appear ...

Hi: I looked over your website, and your claims are intriguing. I was wondering the sources of your information to build your chain of custody and timeline, though. Maybe it is on the site and I just missed it, so apologies in advance... but what documents do you have, for instance, to place the Voy...

If you missed the recent UPenn event, it was recorded and is now up on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlwjwLYTJug From the description, "On August 14, Curator Dot Porter brought out a facsimile of Beinecke Library MS 408, aka The Voynich Manuscript. This is a realistic facsimile that looks...

New blog post, "Yes, Wilfrid Could Have Seen the Letters": https://proto57.wordpress.com/2024/08/08/yes-wilfrid-may-have-seen-the-letters/ https://proto57.wordpress.com/2024/08/08/yes-wilfrid-may-have-seen-the-letters/ It has been claimed many times in recent years, in defense of the Voynich as a ge...

Hi Mike: Well of course that is really interesting, and I can't imagine anyone "hating" you if you are correct. I suppose you mean "others who have their own theories of translation"? But most would be very happy to see success... at least I know I would. But forgive my skepticism. We have all seen ...

Is there any evidence of this or just speculation? I was going to ask the same thing, actually. There have not been found, nor described, any trace of anything remotely similar to the Voynich manuscript for all of history. If there were these many copies, as claimed, surely there would be some evid...

Actually, Robert, I just pre-ordered! Here is the link for anyone interested: https://www.amazon.com/Voynich-Reconsidered-Mysterious-Manuscript-World/dp/0764367498/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3RX8B6QLH1ZP7&keywords=Voynich+schiffer&qid=1693807462&sprefix=voynich+schiffer%2Caps%2C609&sr=8-1 without URL code: htt...

Excellent, Robert. Again, I look forward to it...

Rich.