They deciphered the oldest manuscript in history

May 16, 2019

Academician Gerard Cheshire was able to decipher Voynich's text, which dates back to the 15th century and was considered one of the "most mysterious texts in the world".

A scholar of the The University of Bristol has managed to decipher one of the "most mysterious texts of the world". The Manuscript Voynich He is over 600 years old and its content was a challenge for linguists and cryptographers. However, the anonymous text dating from the fifteenth century, found in the nineteenth century, has recently been resolved.

The Voynich, a 240-page work by nuns for María de Castilla, the great aunt of Catalina de Aragón he arrived by the hands of Alan Turing to be able to understand this enigma. However, it was the linguist Gerard Cheshire who could reveal its contents.

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The scholar claims that this work is the only known example of the language of the people of Ischia, a volcanic island in the Gulf of Naples, where Maria lived in the Aragonese castle.

The manuscript uses a language born from a mixture of Latin spoken or vulgar Latin and other languages ​​of the Mediterranean in the early Middle Ages, after the collapse of the Roman Empire. It is therefore a mix of words that have become the many Romance languages, including Italian.

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Regarding the manuscript Voynich, the Dr. Cheshire He said: "Language is proto-romance, it is the only known example, because it was the language of ordinary people and was therefore not used in official documents." In Ischia, the language was still used in geographical and cultural isolation, so it was used for the manuscript even though Queen Mary spoke Latin fluently. "

"Now that the language and the writing system have been explained, the pages of the manuscript have been opened so that academics can explore and reveal, for the first time, their true linguistic and informative content," added the specialist. .