There are definitely a few typos, but who’s gonna notice, right? I stained the pages with black tea, and tried to cut the edges to match the originals. The first one took about 11 hours, and the other two took 2-3 hours each. The words were done with a fountain pen and the color is watercolor
OK so i think i've found pretty plausable explanation where / why / when / by who voynich was made. However I dont know latin, greek, or any useful language so decrypting voynich is something im unable to do currently, but the origins can be figured out pretty accurately in my opinion.
Where / when : in 1420-1450 Mantua, Italy. Radiocarbon analysis already proves this. i also saw evidence of the calfskin (parchment) that was traced back to northern italy, so Mantua's close proximity should be obvious. Vittorino da Feltre created his famous school Casa Gioiosa there in 1420's focusing on reneissance humanism, and the manuscript is classical book of just that. House of Gonzaga funded the process, experts say making the manuscript was expensive process at the time but Gonzaga family had the money to do so.
Why: In 1400 Renaissance humanism was very trendy topic, so the manuscript was made to spread information between friendly court teachers. I think it was ciphered because constant wars were commonplace, so it was thought to be valuable information. Other theory is they wanted to gatekeep people from learning this stuff in the manuscript so they could be hired to the court themselves.
Cipher: Mantuan rulers of this 1400's era used different types of ciphers to crazy extent. They coded even letters to their lovers etc. According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Substitution_cipher Francesco I Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua, used the earliest known example of a homophonic substitution cipher in 1401.
Creator could be Vittorino da Feltre in 1423 with a group of other teachers in his "Casa Gioiosa". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vittorino_da_Feltre
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casa_Gioiosa
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gianfrancesco_I_Gonzaga,_Marquis_of_Mantua
Hello! I’m Vladimir Aristippus Robespierre from Moscow, Russia. Last year, I published a report in which I explained the meaning of some drawings from the Voynich Manuscript. Since then, I have come to understand additional details and identified a historical context that closely aligns with my reading of the drawings: the author of the Voynich Manuscript held views highly consistent with Neoplatonism, a perspective that featured prominently in late medieval natural philosophy. This report details those new observations and updates a few points from my previous analysis based on further findings.
By examining the illustrations not in isolation, but within the context of the entire manuscript, I trace recurring visual motifs and color codes, which I refer to as “Voynich lore”. This holistic approach allows me to identify structural parallels and clarify the meaning behind many of these elements.
This report is also a natural continuation of my Reddit post ‘The word “tolor” means “fertilization”’, which became “Top Post All Time” on the Voynich subreddit just two days after publication. Here, I show that every single piece of parchment containing the character sequence “tolor”, which appears only three times in the entire manuscript, describes the exact same process: how the soul comes into this world after a man has fertilized a woman. Though each series of illustrations features different imagery, such as plants, nymphs, and stars, they employ a shared set of visual codes.
The largest fold-out diagram fRos serves as the conceptual core of the manuscript. It maps the interaction between the human soul, the sensory apparatus of the body, and the sensible world, a composition resonant with Neoplatonic concepts. The layout consists of a central rosette representing the brain, peripheral rosettes corresponding to the five senses and speech, along with reproduction and the sensible world. The grouping of the five Aristotelian senses and speech together follows the model of Ramon Llull, an influential medieval philosopher whose widely circulated works the creator of the diagram was very likely familiar with.
The present study demonstrates that the Voynich Manuscript is not a collection of scattered illustrations but a holistic system united by the Neoplatonic philosophical tradition. The key result of this work is the revelation of the internal logic of the manuscript. If the pages are considered in isolation, one can put forward a multitude of different hypotheses, but when the drawings come together into a coherent whole, their mutual consistency becomes so complete that the probability of an erroneous interpretation yielding such systemic coherence approaches zero.
Knowledge of the actual meaning of the illustrations immediately eliminates dead-end research directions. Once it becomes clear that the plants are stylized diagrams, the stars denote souls, and the nymphs are not bathing women, there is no longer any need to search for real herbs, astronomical constellations, or balneological recipes. Grasping the theme of the pages narrows the space of interpretations and directs research in a productive course.
You can download my new report here:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1DZmwkin9lNp2epGLC8wKgAW5XElwVNk1/view
Happy to answer any questions.
Hello there! Im currently trying to make a font for Voynichese, However, to complete this font I need to see irregular or special characters and where they’re used.
What I mean is any symbol that appears within a word that typically only appears a handful of times, not often enough to be apart of the more common transliterations.
I am looking mainly for the page number, or what words they’re used in
Any and all help would be greatly appreciated!
Recently, I went to an event in Bydgoszcz, Poland celebrating the 121st birthday of a Polish cryptologist and Enigma machine breaker, Marian Rejewski. Among the attractions, such as writing on a typewriter, board games, UV art and coloring cloth bags, there were also riddles to solve, like this one, inspired by the Voynich Manuscript. Naturally, I just had to take a photo ;3
I didn't actually play this particular game, but from what I noticed, it was basically solving a polyalphabetic cipher composed of glyphs from the VM
I extended my trial mappings to the top twenty "words" in the Voynich manuscript, and developed two new transliterations: vb101.L0.3 with {4o} treated as a single glyph, and vb101.L0.4 with {4o} and {C9} treated as single glyphs.
The most promising precursor languages remain as follows (roughly in this order): Persian, Icelandic, Welsh, Hebrew, Arabic.
More details on SubStack.
https://drroberthedwards.substack.com/p/l-zero-and-the-voynich-alphabet
https://drroberthedwards.substack.com/p/voynich-the-l-zero-transliterations
https://drroberthedwards.substack.com/p/voynich-the-twenty-word-strategy