Category Archives: Voynich
Amirdovlat Amasiatsi, 15th c. Armenian physician
In the coming weeks I aim to offer more discussion and analysis of the Voynich manuscript in preparation for a talk I gave at my university. As part of these Voynich researches I have recently been reading about a fascinating figure called Amirdovlat Amasiatsi (Armenian: Ամիրդովլաթ Ամասիացի; c. 1420-1496), and as I will refer back to him several times in …
Nick Pelling – a response
Nick Pelling’s account – a response In a very entertaining and stylish review, Nick Pelling recently devoted space to my Voynich paper, so let me offer a response. I’ll address it to him, as I feel that is more courteous than hiding behind academic third persons! Nick, for the record I love your blog. It’s …
Minims (2) and their importance in the Voynich script
Following my earlier post about minims – which you should read before reading this one – I now want to extend the debate to suggest that this area could have a major impact on our understanding of the Voynich script and signs. Let’s start with a quiz: Look at these five signs and groups and …
Minims in mediaeval orthography (1)
While thinking about the sequences of ‘i’ letters in the Voynich manuscript, I came across this interesting account of minims in Latin script from a Harvard website: Minims Medieval scribes used minims to form letters 깃 허브 다운로드. A single minim looks like this: Several minims can make up a single letter, or even a group …
Voynich: natural language or not? (1)
I’ve had many encouraging comments about my paper on the Voynich script, but also some puzzling ones gnuxe 다운로드. Some people insist that the analysis “couldn’t be possible”, so they don’t bother to consider it, because the script “couldn’t represent a 1:1 mapping” onto real words, or the signs “couldn’t represent a 1:1 mapping” onto …
Voynich manuscript
Samsung Galaxy app This section of the website looks at my research into the fascinating Voynich manuscript, the 15th century document which has as yet been completely undeciphered sermon. Click on the menu above to find a paper on a partial decoding of the script, as well as a video showing informally what I …
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