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Thursday, June 09, 20051118376943

Tampered Voynich Manuscript and Other Strange Scripts

"Evidence of text retouching on f1r," by Jorge Stolfi, stolfi, last updated 22 July 2004, http://www.dcc.unicamp.br/~stolfi/voynich/04-07-15-retouching/.

Was the Voynich Manuscript been tampered with centuries ago? Dr. Stolfi thinks so

It has long ben suspected that the Voynich Manuscript was modified in some way after it was first written.

That conjecture was often made about accessory items: the colored paints that were applied to the drawings, the page numbers, the bits of European script (such as the "michiton" text and the Zodiac section month names), and the various "key sequences".

In the new high-resolution color scans made available by the Beinecke Library, one can now see clear evidence that the main text of the VMS was itself touched-up or corrected at a later time.


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Evidence of Tampering


A page from the mysterious itself...

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For those interested in unreadable works (besides tdaxp, heh :) ), there's also



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old_european_script_sample




rongo_script_sample


And, of course, the one and only

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tdaxp flickr tags: ,

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