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		<title>Copiale Cipher update&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2011/10/25/copiale-cipher-update</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Oct 2011 08:23:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Historical Ciphers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Curse of the Voynich]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today&#8217;s New York Times has a short article by John Markoff on the Copiale Cipher, the oculist secret society initiatory document recently cracked by Kevin Knight, Beáta Megyesi and Christiane Schaefer. I discussed it in reasonable depth on this blog a few days ago, click there if you want to know more. I do suspect [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Today&#8217;s New York Times has a short article by John Markoff on the Copiale Cipher, the oculist secret society initiatory document recently cracked by Kevin Knight, Beáta Megyesi and Christiane Schaefer. I discussed it in reasonable depth on this blog a few days ago, click there if you want to know more.
I do suspect that [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Review of &#8220;The Book That Can&#8217;t Be Read&#8221; Voynich documentary&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2011/02/21/review-of-the-book-that-cant-be-read-voynich-documentary</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2011/02/21/review-of-the-book-that-cant-be-read-voynich-documentary#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Feb 2011 14:59:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Edith Sherwood]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Edward Kelley]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Dee]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Milan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rene Zandbergen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Curse of the Voynich]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Venice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Voynich Theories]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve just watched the National Geographic / Naked Science documentary on the Voynich Manuscript, courtesy of a Stateside friend (thanks!). Regular Cipher Mysteries readers will already know how my review of it is supposed to go &#8211; &#8216;that, despite a few inaccuracies, it was great to see the Voynich Manuscript being brought to a popular audience&#8216;. But actually, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve just watched the National Geographic / Naked Science documentary on the Voynich Manuscript, courtesy of a Stateside friend (thanks!). Regular Cipher Mysteries readers will already know how my review of it is supposed to go &#8211; &#8216;that, despite a few inaccuracies, it was great to see the Voynich Manuscript being brought to a popular audience&#8216;.
But actually, the [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Filelfo&#8217;s 1465 letter to George Amirutzes&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2010/02/24/filelfos-1465-letter-to-george-amirutzes</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2010/02/24/filelfos-1465-letter-to-george-amirutzes#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 22:20:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Antonio Averlino]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Curse of the Voynich]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Art historians have long debated whether or not dissatisfied architect Antonio Averlino made the trip from Italy to Constantinople in 1465: one of the key pieces of evidence supporting the notion is the letter of recommendation written in Greek by Averlino&#8217;s old friend Filelfo (the humanist writer and Hellenophile) and addressed to George Amirutzes (Mehmed II&#8217;s personal tutor). [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Art historians have long debated whether or not dissatisfied architect Antonio Averlino made the trip from Italy to Constantinople in 1465: one of the key pieces of evidence supporting the notion is the letter of recommendation written in Greek by Averlino&#8217;s old friend Filelfo (the humanist writer and Hellenophile) and addressed to George Amirutzes (Mehmed II&#8217;s personal tutor).
This [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>&#8220;Voynich Averlino hypothesis&#8221; summary&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2010/01/10/voynich-averlino-hypothesis-summary</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2010/01/10/voynich-averlino-hypothesis-summary#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jan 2010 10:33:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Antonio Averlino]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cicco Simonetta]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Leon Battista Alberti]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Milan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Curse of the Voynich]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Voynich Manuscript]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Voynich Theories]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In the last few days, several people have independently asked me to summarize my &#8220;The Curse of the Voynich&#8221; Voynich Manuscript theory (that it is an enciphered copy of Antonio Averlino [Filarete]&#8216;s lost books of secrets). Good theories generally improve when you retell them a few times: for example, back when I was first pitching my [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[In the last few days, several people have independently asked me to summarize my &#8220;The Curse of the Voynich&#8221; Voynich Manuscript theory (that it is an enciphered copy of Antonio Averlino [Filarete]&#8216;s lost books of secrets). Good theories generally improve when you retell them a few times: for example, back when I was first pitching my [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>&#8220;The Curse of the Voynich&#8221;, now back in print&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2009/12/24/the-curse-of-the-voynich-now-back-in-print</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2009/12/24/the-curse-of-the-voynich-now-back-in-print#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Dec 2009 14:22:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Curse of the Voynich]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Voynich Manuscript]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Voynich Theories]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Amazon]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you all! Today&#8217;s brief news is that 100 copies of &#8220;The Curse of the Voynich&#8221; have just arrived from the printers, so those 20-odd people who ordered one from Amazon this month should be receiving it by the New Year (post willing). Alternatively, if you&#8217;d like your own shiny [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you all!
Today&#8217;s brief news is that 100 copies of &#8220;The Curse of the Voynich&#8221; have just arrived from the printers, so those 20-odd people who ordered one from Amazon this month should be receiving it by the New Year (post willing). Alternatively, if you&#8217;d like your own shiny signed [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Nick Pelling online radio interview with Red Ice Creations&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2009/09/23/nick-pelling-online-radio-interview-with-red-ice-creations</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2009/09/23/nick-pelling-online-radio-interview-with-red-ice-creations#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 10:45:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Adam McLean]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Nick Pelling]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Rudolf II]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Curse of the Voynich]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Venice]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Wilfrid Voynich]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[William Romaine Newbold]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Just to let you know that a Voynich Manuscript radio interview I gave a few days ago (either download it, or click on the Flash Player play button [half a screen down on the right] to hear it) has just gone live on the Red Ice Creations website. They wanted me to chat about all [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Just to let you know that a Voynich Manuscript radio interview I gave a few days ago (either download it, or click on the Flash Player play button [half a screen down on the right] to hear it) has just gone live on the Red Ice Creations website. They wanted me to chat about all [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>VBI, now in English English!</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2009/07/08/vbi-now-in-english-english</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2009/07/08/vbi-now-in-english-english#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:08:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Elias Schwerdtfeger]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Curse of the Voynich]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Voynich Manuscript]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Voynich Theories]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[His eyes stinging from all the Google Translate hits popping up on his server logs (what did I tell you?), Elias Schwerdtfeger posted up an English translation of his Voynich Bullshit Index post from a couple of days ago, no doubt cursing me through gritted teeth as he typed. By my reckoning, I reckon my [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[His eyes stinging from all the Google Translate hits popping up on his server logs (what did I tell you?), Elias Schwerdtfeger posted up an English translation of his Voynich Bullshit Index post from a couple of days ago, no doubt cursing me through gritted teeth as he typed.  
By my reckoning, I reckon my [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Italian Voynich talks&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2009/06/29/italian-voynich-talks</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2009/06/29/italian-voynich-talks#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 13:04:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cipher Non-Fiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Voynich Manuscript]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marcelo Dos Santos]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Of course, the minute I post about Voynich talks, several more suddenly pop up. The &#8216;Heaven Astrolabe&#8217; blogger (Margherita Fiorello) gave a nicely-meandering (but picture-heavy) description of wandering across Rome to see a talk on the Voynich Manuscript, held on the 23rd June 2009 at the Libreria Aseq esoteric bookshop (a bit like an upmarket Italian [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Of course, the minute I post about Voynich talks, several more suddenly pop up.  
The &#8216;Heaven Astrolabe&#8217; blogger (Margherita Fiorello) gave a nicely-meandering (but picture-heavy) description of wandering across Rome to see a talk on the Voynich Manuscript, held on the 23rd June 2009 at the Libreria Aseq esoteric bookshop (a bit like an upmarket Italian [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Q13 and Voynich balneology sources&#8230;?</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2009/06/18/q13-and-voynich-balneology-sources</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2009/06/18/q13-and-voynich-balneology-sources#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 11:07:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Antonio Averlino]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Glen Claston]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Herbals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Curse of the Voynich]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the (frustratingly small) number of art history leads the Voynich Manuscript&#8217;s author dangles before our eyes is the balneology part of Q13 (&#8220;quire 13&#8243;). Specifically, there are two bifolios that depict baths and pools, where the pictures helpfully allow us to reconstruct what the page layout originally was:           84r/84v &#8211; contains Q13&#8242;s quire number [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[One of the (frustratingly small) number of art history leads the Voynich Manuscript&#8217;s author dangles before our eyes is the balneology part of Q13 (&#8220;quire 13&#8243;). Specifically, there are two bifolios that depict baths and pools, where the pictures helpfully allow us to reconstruct what the page layout originally was:
          84r/84v &#8211; contains Q13&#8242;s quire number (which [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>The Voynich Cipher for code-breakers&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2009/06/06/the-voynich-cipher-for-code-breakers</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2009/06/06/the-voynich-cipher-for-code-breakers#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Jun 2009 14:26:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Beinecke Library]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gordon Rugg]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nick Pelling]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Voynich Manuscript]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Voynich Theories]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Though (as was apparent from the rapid social media take-up of yesterday&#8217;s XKCD webcomic) the Voynich Manuscript is now firmly wedged in the cultural mind, sadly the level of debate on it is still stuck circa 1977 &#8211; and if anything, Gordon Rugg&#8217;s foolish &#8220;hoax&#8221; claims have helped to keep it there. But it is [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Though (as was apparent from the rapid social media take-up of yesterday&#8217;s XKCD webcomic) the Voynich Manuscript is now firmly wedged in the cultural mind, sadly the level of debate on it is still stuck circa 1977 &#8211; and if anything, Gordon Rugg&#8217;s foolish &#8220;hoax&#8221; claims have helped to keep it there.
But it is demonstrably [...]]]></content:encoded>
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