>After looking at the so-called code for a while, Gibbs realized he was seeing a common form of medieval Latin abbreviations, often used in medical treatises about herbs. "From the herbarium incorporated into the Voynich manuscript, a standard pattern of abbreviations and ligatures emerged from each plant entry," he wrote. "The abbreviations correspond to the standard pattern of words used in the Herbarium Apuleius Platonicus – aq = aqua (water), dq = decoque / decoctio (decoction), con = confundo (mix), ris = radacis / radix (root), s aiij = seminis ana iij (3 grains each), etc." So this wasn't a code at all; it was just shorthand.
>Further study of the herbs and images in the book reminded Gibbs of other Latin medical texts. When he consulted the Trotula and De Balneis Puteolanis, two commonly copied medieval Latin medical books, he realized that a lot of the Voynich Manuscript's text and images had been plagiarized directly from them (they, in turn, were copied in part from ancient Latin texts by Galen, Pliny, and Hippocrates).
>Gibbs concluded that it's likely the Voynich Manuscript was a customized book, possibly created for one person, devoted mostly to women's medicine.
>voynich manuscript was just abbreviated Latin can't make this shit up
Josiah Scott
What a fucking disappointment.
Michael Perry
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Jackson Lopez
WHY THE FUCK DID IT TAKE THIS LONG FOR PEOPLE TO SOLVE IT
Brody Green
>It took this long for an expert on medieval latin medicine to take one fucking glance at it Why is academia such a shitshow. You'd think someone familiar in medieval texts would look at it in the span of a hundred fucking years.
Jackson Mitchell
I always knew it had something to do with women's medicine but the language is...shorthand Latin? Really now?
Luis Garcia
Translated pages when?
Let's see what the wacky pages actually were about.
Henry White
This is because universities are Zuccing their language departments in favor of STEMfags and businessfags.
Jonathan Fisher
>tfw the 25th century equivalent of the Voynich Maunscript would be a 21st century scrapbook of Justin Bieber photos annotated in lolspeak
Brayden Evans
>Elf language turns out to be fucking Pidgin.
Chase Fisher
I think the issue has been that decoders and cryptologists have been looking at it rather than someone whose just an expert in latin.
Mason Lee
>people in the field of Humanities are so low IQ that it took them hundreds of years to "decipher" abbreviated Latin. Wew indeed.
Parker Young
This is not the first time this text has been "translated", nothing in this article suggests this new attempt is any more credible. VM is gibberish.
>I doubt it's simply abbreviated Latin credentials pls
Robert Bailey
I am a professor of Latin Abbreviations from the Latin University in Latinland.
Landon Edwards
I never had high hopes anyway. Life is not a fantasy novel.
Now investigate Codex Gigas.
Josiah Mitchell
How can they know it's latin when the symbols in the book aren't even from any known alphabet?
Julian Young
holy shit what a fuckin' disappointment
Angel Cruz
so, in short, it was just made by someone who had shitty handwriting, the drawing skills of a toddler, and a knack to abbreviate words. I don't know why but I'm really mad right now
Dominic Gomez
I remember speaking with a professor of classics in the Deansgate Library in Manchester. She showed me untranslated works from Oxyrhynchus. She claimed that there just wasn't he manpower to go through them all, and that the only thing that ever got funding was anything Gospel related because American donors were obsessed with finding the earliest copy of the Bible they could find. It really depressed me desu. She said the one she had was a fragment from one of the lesser known Trojan cycle works, but I can't remember exactly which one.
Samuel Cox
I want to die.
Jeremiah Cooper
Is this clickbait or what? Hasn't it been recognized that the voynich manuscript had fragments of Latin for as long as it has been studied? Have they arrived at a consensus or is this just a single expert speculating?
I don't get it. It seems wayyy too anticlimactic..
