Roger Easton on Processing the Voynich Manuscript Sept 13, 2024

This gathering is part of the R-CHIVE group's biweekly meetings online (Fridays at 1 pm EDT). We have two series: Fall and Spring. For more information, please see r-chive.com/ OR reach out to the organizers: Juilee Decker, [e-mail]; David Messinger; [e-mail]; or Roger L. Easton, Jr.; [e-mail].
Roger's teaser about the presentations was distributed to our group on Weds. 9/11, as a preview to the 9/13 presentation which is included in this video in its entirety. The meeting was recorded with the permission of both Roger and Lisa Fagin Davis, the lead scholar working on the Voynich. Enjoy!
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"I’m going to risk the threat of triskaidekaphobia and make a brief presentation this Friday about the images from the Voynich manuscript that were reported by Lisa Fagin Davis this week on her blog:
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This came about when I was laying over at Dulles Airport for 7 hours after returning from Vienna and Greece in August. I took advantage of that time to read the article in the September issue of “The Atlantic” about Lisa’s experiences with the Voynich manuscript (www.theatlanti.... I sent an email to Lisa to say that I was on the team with Ken Boydston, Mike Phelps, Chet Van Duzer, and Greg Heyworth that imaged a few leaves of the manuscript in 2014. As a result, she and I have been working on those multispectral images to see if any new information could be extracted. At the meeting, I’ll describe the imaging and recent processing that was done, along with a bit about what she found from those images."

[@raginald7mars408]

as a German Biologist - this fascinates me from the first second I saw this story on German TV in 2011 - and wondering - how that fits into the Occult East European Tradition around Prag - and may be the young Leonardo making his first Comic and sell it as a Magical Grimoire... it was evident to me - there is no “Code” to crack - it is all random gibberish... I see it as a fancy marvelous adorable precious Comic - may be the BEST ever created...

[@widescreennavel]

Remember film? I miss the days of film. I know, I know...but I love to see it. It looks great and you never have to count pixels,

[@lisafdavis]

That English Psalter palimpsest is AMAZING!

[@dianeodify]

It is rather depressing to see that the Beinecke library supplied Prof. Easton with so much out-of-date and erroneous information. Those section descriptions, like the 'Columbus' theory have already been addressed and debunked. The 'biology' notion dates from 1921 and was debunked in the same year - including by an article by the editor of Scientific American. The 'Columbus' theory depends very heavily on imaginative interpretation of the drawings, and does not agree with current understanding of where Columbus went, and when. Speaking as an iconographic analyst with more than forty years experience, there is nothing about the drawings which requires a date later than the first four decades of the fifteenth century. I have been actively researching Beinecke MS 408 for more than a decade, and have shared much of that work in summary form. As I say, it's depressing to see that so much misinformation and out-of-date, unfounded and fantastical ideas are still being promoted. Thank you for these scans, though. Good of you to post it.

[@gabrielplattes6253]

Hoax.

[@michaelbedford8017]

Yes; if you're interested yourselves, then study the pages. These clowns probably no more than anyone else.