Comments on: More early modern correspondence sources… http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2009/11/30/more-early-modern-correspondence-sources The latest news, views, research and reviews on uncracked historical ciphers... Wed, 08 Feb 2012 05:57:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Rene Zandbergen http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2009/11/30/more-early-modern-correspondence-sources/comment-page-1#comment-12914 Rene Zandbergen Tue, 01 Dec 2009 10:03:28 +0000 http://www.ciphermysteries.com/?p=2386#comment-12914 From my relatively small experience in reading old letters, I can only recommend it. This is the most direct connection with history that one can get. Even if one finds no reference to the Voynich MS (which, statistically speaking, is rather likely) it is never time wasted. The inevitable question is, why there are so few references to it. I think that the mystery of the MS is a modern one. What would it have been to an average reader of the 15th to 18th (say) century? Possibly just another book in a foreign language he could not read. How would he have know that it is actually an unknown language or an uncrackable code? From my relatively small experience in reading old letters, I can only recommend
it. This is the most direct connection with history that one can get. Even if one
finds no reference to the Voynich MS (which, statistically speaking, is rather
likely) it is never time wasted.

The inevitable question is, why there are so few references to it. I think
that the mystery of the MS is a modern one. What would it have been to
an average reader of the 15th to 18th (say) century?
Possibly just another book in a foreign language he could not read. How
would he have know that it is actually an unknown language or an
uncrackable code?

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