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Since the time I worked on a rare collection of medieval manuscripts and books collected by William Newbold, an early 20th century scholar who tried to decipher the Voynich manuscript, I have been intrigued by the mysterious document. My considered opinion is that the book is an example of asemic writing, which to me is far more interesting than the hypothesis that its language is some sort of cipher system.
Dr. Sami Saladin
Pisa, Italy
This is something different, its more like an intellectual game, an inferred imaginative proposition based on the occult precept of "above so below".
How do you get that from an indecipherable text? It seems to obviously be a work of art created for reasons probably only the artist knew.
I think it could indeed be someone's personally created language....
I suppose it could be just some kind of hoax - not a hoax in that it never happened, but a kind of joke to puzzle people?
I think the Voynich manuscript is the product of a very talented artist who probably suffered from something like schizophrenia which made them reclusive. It reminds me in a way of the work of Henry Darger, who probably didn't have schizophrenia, but was a reclusive artist and writer whose massive and complicated work was unknown and undiscovered during his lifetime.
If you want to be scholarly you can read the entire manuscript here: Voyage the Voynich Manuscript
For all things Voynich and the history of its scholarship: The Voynich Manuscript
And this guy wants to get a Voynich Linguistic Conference going: Voynich language conference 2014 | Stephen Bax