Can you guys redpill me on the Voynich manuscript?

Can you guys redpill me on the Voynich manuscript?

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Explain the pic OP

>(((Schumer)))

Change Voynich into Goynich and we're getting started.

Fucking every time.

the truest redpill must be realizing that you have started to hate being right

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>Schumer

Incomprehensible garbage made by either a schizo who believed this shit or a Jew trying to profit

wrong

Codex Gigas is also very interesting.

Terence Mckenna has some interesting ideas about it.

Yeah don’t try and explain or refute anything just keep posting pictures of old ass books with literal gibberish about hollow earth and tree faggots

criminal - a person who has committed a crime
crime - a gross violation of law
by definition this does not qualify as a myth

I've heard theories ranging from it being a setting book for some fairy tales to just a really incompetent catalog of various flora, similar to how back in the day we had very inaccurate depictions of many animals, like the giraffe.

The Texas church shooter got his gun despite having a felony bt simply lying on his background check and saying he never had a felony. You must agree that this should change, or is there more to it?

Do you know where it could have come from, or who made it? There are several theories and almost all of them are crazy.

lol

The most plausible theory:

It was a medieval reference book of medicinal plants, most likely made by an apothecary on commission for a noblewoman's personal use (as opposed to a work produced for a university library or monastery). The pictures provide details of the plants, and the ailments they're supposed to cure. True, a lot of them look strange (not to mention poorly drawn) to modern eyes, but by medieval standards they were far from the strangest things committed to manuscript (pic related).

The reason the words look like gibberish is because medieval scribes had a habit of abbreviating letters, words, and even entire phrases. This started back in antiquity with things like '&'. Prior to the invention of the printing press, to save time professional scribes would often develop incredibly complex shorthands. By the medieval period a whole range of abbreviations were in common use; English dropped almost all of these after printing became common, but a couple remain in other languages, like 'ñ' in Spanish as an abbreviation for 'ny'.

The manuscript would have come with an index explaining the terms in plain text, which has now been lost.

Of course, unless someone manages to translate the text (which is practically impossible without the index) no one will ever be able to prove it for sure.

They're bullshit, easy.

It's not untranslatable because they do not have an index.
It is not translatable because the language is not known and the syntax is completely unrecognizable.
Some of the greatest linguistic minds have tried to translate it over hundreds of years and nobody has made even close to what could be called progress.
If it were due to scribes, then there would be other examples of similar abbreviations from the same time period.

It was a coded herbal remedy guide, as the times saw medicinal herbology as possibly being linked to witchcraft, thus the need for coding to keep it's subject secret from the layman

could be an elaborate shitpost

He lied on the form 4473. He committed perjury

The government never reported his crimes to the NICS system. The FBI and Air Force dropped the ball. That's the "more to the story". They called in to check his BG and were told to proceed with the sale.

This. Why is it so hard for people to think there were no bamboozles back then?

The fucker that wrote this took everyone on a centuries-old ruse cruise.

>camelpard
kek

Would've been insanely expensive, that's why.

u wot
Shumer's a German name.

youtube.com/watch?v=fpZD_3D8_WQ

A long but really interesting video, one of my favorites on the subject. It's 45 mins but really you'll get sucked in if you know anything about the manuscript or are interested in it at all.

It's written in a code that hasn't been cracked and probably never will be because the encoding method is idiosyncratic and the input language is not known. It's like trying to crack sombody's 12 word pass phrase where the words are from the pass phrase holder's secret made up language that only he knows.

>It is not translatable because the language is not known and the syntax is completely unrecognizable.
desu senpai idc lol

Would that sentence look like English to anyone who isn't familiar with online slang? No. And that one's easy because most of the abbreviations are just initials. Now imagine all that, but to save time people started substituting 'lo' with '?' and 'am' with '^'

desu ^m idc ?l

That's the beginning of the level of idiosyncrasy we're talking about. Now add in characters that are /completely/ made up by the author, and you start to understand how something like Voynich manuscript could happen.

>If it were due to scribes, then there would be other examples of similar abbreviations from the same time period.
Tiro, secretary of the orator Cicero, devised an entire shorthand solely for the use of himself and junior scribes. We know about it because Cicero became quite famous and the system caught on with other scribes in 1st century BC Rome. There must have been plenty of others that have been lost entirely.

Medieval scribes were far more isolated than Roman ones. We know that some abbreviations were only used in a particular monastery, and there were probably innovations that were only used by single people in their private notes. It's entirely possible that the system used in the Voynich manuscript was devised by the guild of apothecaries of a single town, and only a dozen people knew it at any given time.

>Some of the greatest linguistic minds have tried to translate it over hundreds of years and nobody has made even close to what could be called progress.
Which is a good indication that, assuming it's not total nonsense, it requires an index to be read.

Non-jewish germans in the US tend to have anglicized names.