[SOA] Manuscript Codex Cracked.

[Gerard Cheshire]

Dear Archivists,

Some of you may be interested to know that the codex of a well known archive manuscript MS408 (Voynich) has been deciphered. The writing system and alphabet are unique to the island of Ischia, Italy, and the language is the only known example of proto-Romance, which evolved into the modern Romance languages. The manuscript was written c. 1444 for Maria of Castile, Queen of Aragon, as a memoire and book of womanly advice. The manuscript is therefore very important to European linguistics and humanities.


A peer-reviewed paper is being published in April, 2019. In the meantime, three pre-print papers are available to freely download from the linguistics website LingBuzz:

The first paper explains the writing system and language: http://ling.auf.net/lingbuzz/003737
The second paper translates a pictorial map from the manuscript: http://ling.auf.net/lingbuzz/003808<http://ling.auf.net/lingbuzz/003808>
The third paper focuses on volcanological details from the map: https://ling.auf.net/lingbuzz/004381

Please disseminate this information to other scholars who may find it useful to their research.
Regards,
Dr. G. E. Cheshire,

University of Bristol.

https://bristol.academia.edu/GerardCheshire
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