Hello, my name is Walter Grosse (see my book http://fulg.blogs.sapo.pt/2798.html) and, in this blog, I'm going to talk to you about my interpretation of the Voynich code.

 

First of all, to « read » the Voynich Manuscript, it's wrong to apply methods as the E.V.A. (European Voynich Alphabet), because each character of the Manuscript doesn't mean only one letter of the alphabet, but all of them. So, it's not a substitution code, where one  letter is substituted for another :

 

 

The problem is that we are so accustomed to an alphabet where each letter has just one phonetic value (a single phoneme is denoted by a single letter), and therefore A = A, B = B, C = C,..., that we don't see anything else. In fact, in our alphabet (A,B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, W, X, Y, Z), for example, P ≠ A, because P = P and A = A.

 

Single character ≠ single letter (substitution cipher or letter-to-letter substitution)

 

Single character = all the letters of the alphabet

 

So, how to read the text ?

 

The letters (characters) aren't important. To read the text, we need to see the number of characters for each word. The word size is very important in this system.

 

In the text, the most common sizes of the words are those who have between 2 and 7 characters, like the letters names in the Greek alphabet (there are almost no words more than 9 or 10 characters long).

 

Voilà, the key to the Voynich code : the name of the letter and the name of the number.

 

Words with 2 characters (ex.  ) :

 

- Μ μ (μι)

- Ν ν (νι)

- Ξ ξ (ξι)

- Π π (πι)

- Ρ ρ (ρω)

- Φ φ (φι)

- Χ χ (χι)

- Ψ ψ (ψι)

 

Words with 3 characters (ex.  ):

 

- Η η (ήτα)

- Τ τ (ταυ)

- 1 (ένα)

- 2 (δύο)

- 6 (έξι)

Words with 4 characters (ex.  ) :

 

- Α α (άλφα)

- Β β (βήτα)

- Ζ ζ (ζήτα)

- Θ θ (θήτα)

-  Ι ι (ιώτα)

- 7 (εφτά)

- 8 (οχτώ)

- 10 (δέκα)

Words with 5 characters (ex.  ) :

 

- Γ γ (γάμμα)

- Δ δ (δέλτα)

- Κ κ (κάππα)

- Λ λ (λάμδα)

- Σ σ ς (σίγμα)

- Ω ω (ωμέγα)

- 3 (τρεις)

- 5 (πέντε)

- 9 (εννέα)

 

Words with 6 characters (ex.  ) :

 

- Ε ε (έψιλον)

- Υ υ (ύψιλον)

- 11 (έντεκα)

- 12 (δώδεκα)

 

Words with 7 characters (ex.  ) :

 

- Ο ο (όμικρον)

 

On the other hand, all the words with 8 or 9 characters are the names of some numbers. Especially the Greek names of the numbers 4 and 13, for example.

 

In fact, in f.13r (http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/ciencia/imagenes_manuscrito/manuscrito025.jpg) we see a plant with thirteen flowers, and in the same page, we found a word with 9 characters :

 

 

  

In Greek, the word for 13 is formed by 9 letters : δεκατρέις.

 

 

 

          δ ε κ α τ ρ έ ι ς

          1 2 3 4 5 678 9

 

 

In f.6r - f.16v (http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/ciencia/imagenes_manuscrito/manuscrito013.jpg and http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/ciencia/imagenes_manuscrito/manuscrito032.jpg) we see a plant with four flowers, and, in the same pages, we see one word with 8 characters.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In Greek, the word for 4 is formed by 8 letters : τέσσερις.

 

             τ έ  σ σ ε ρ ι  ς

             1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

As we can see here, the character  can be the letter "e"or the letter "r", etc. The character can be the letter "e" or the letter "s", etc. The character can be the letters "e", "i" or "r", etc. The character  can be the letters "s", "k", "i", and so on...

 

In other words,  = A,B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, W, X, Y, Z ;  = A,B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, W, X, Y, Z ; etc.

 

Punctuation in the text : isolated characters (single character between words) :