#THE VOYNICH MANUSCRIPT ALPHABET CRACKED#

None of them have proved convincing to date, and medievalists are justly skeptical of Cheshire's conclusions as well. There's a long, checkered history of people making similar claims. So case closed, right? After all, headlines are already trumpeting that the 'Voynich manuscript is solved,' decoded by a 'UK genius.' Not so fast.

Apparently it took him all of two weeks to accomplish a feat that has eluded our most brilliant scholars for at least a century. Cheshire identifies the mysterious writing as a 'calligraphic proto-Romance' language, and he thinks the manuscript was put together by a Dominican nun as a reference source on behalf of Maria of Castile, Queen of Aragon. Now, Gerard Cheshire, a University of Bristol academic, has announced his own solution to the conundrum in a new paper in the journal Romance Studies. The VoynichВ manuscript is a famous medieval text written in a mysterious language that so far has proven to be undecipherable. We leave it to the reader to ponder how an honorary research associate is a member of the university's academic community, but his controversial research paper is not affiliated with the university in any way.] We take such concerns very seriously and have therefore removed the story regarding this research from our website to seek further validation and allow further discussions both internally and with the journal concerned. Following media coverage, concerns have been raised about the validity of this research from academics in the fields of linguistics and medieval studies. If they are, the team will communicate the research to the media and on our University website. When a member of our academic community has a paper published in a peer-reviewed journal, the UniversityвЂ™s Media Team will determine whether the findings are of public interest. This research was entirely the author's own work and is not affiliated with the University of Bristol, the Faculty of Arts or the Centre for Medieval Studies.

Yesterday the University of Bristol published a story about research on the Voynich manuscript by an honorary research associate.

#THE VOYNICH MANUSCRIPT ALPHABET CRACKED#

[Update May 17, 2019: The University of Bristol released a statement today retracting its press release claiming one of their researchers had successfully cracked the code of the Voynich manuscript:

The voynich manuscript alphabet