Grimoire, herbal, cryptographic enigma or elegant artwork – whatever the Voynich Manuscript may be, it’s once again making small, cryptic waves. Most exciting is this fantastic Flickr set of hi-res scans of the 16h century tome.
Meanwhile furthe evidence is emerging that it is probably a hoax. I would ask, a hoax what? It certainly is the real Voynich manuscript!
“A breakthrough comes with the publication in Cryptologia this April of an article by Austrian researcher Dr Andreas Schinner, a theoretical physicist and software engineer at the Johannes Kepler University. Schinner analysed the text of the manuscript using specialist statistics capable of handling quasi-stochastic distributions, and found that the manuscript’s statistical properties were consistent with a hoax consisting of meaningless gibberish produced using Rugg’s method or a similar quasi-random method.” more