Voynich Manuscript is deciphered! The first time in the world! Reading of Decophered Voynich Manuscript on the International Scientific Conference, Vilnius, Lithuania.

Voynich Manuscript
6 min readJun 13, 2023

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  1. The Voynich Manuscript has been deciphered by Alisa Gladyseva in 2023.
  2. The key to decipherment was the nomenclature of plants associated with Ancient Greece.
  3. The manuscript was written in medieval Galician, a language of Latin extraction.
  4. The decipherment algorithm involved the colors, morphology, and root of plants.
  5. The cipher used a polyalphabetic cipher with a partially monoalphabetic cipher.
  6. The manuscript makes references to the works of Dioscorides, Theophrastus, Lull, Rupessica, Arnauld de Vilanova, and perhaps even Craeteus.
  7. The author of the Voynich manuscript describes the plants in more detail than Dioscorides.
  8. The deciphered alphabet is simple and anyone can read the text using the decryption algorithm.

Voynich Manuscript book published 📚🎉

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1 00:00:03,000 → 00:00:06,000 Thanks to Vilnius University, it became possible to publish a book namely, the Voynich Manuscript. 2 00:00:06,000 → 00:00:12,000 I already have more than three thousand recommendations from all over the world

Main point

Greek plant names survived through Dioscorides and Theophrastus manuscripts and Greek settlements in Spain. 🌿📜🇬🇷

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3 00:00:12,000 → 00:00:17,694 of scientists who are really interested in decipherment, who are sure that I really deciphered it, 4 00:00:17,694 → 00:00:22,440 which took a really very long time, to be honest more than ten years. 5 00:00:22,440 → 00:00:30,000 And the most interesting in decipherment is the names of plants that are associated with Ancient Greece, 6 00:00:30,000 → 00:00:36,000 since the manuscript was written in Spain, where Greek settlements existed from ancient times 7 00:00:36,000 → 00:00:43,960 and through the centuries the Greek names of plants remained thanks to the manuscripts of Dioscorides and Theophrastus.

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The Voynich manuscript was deciphered using the morphology of plants and identifying medieval Galician words, which revealed that it was written in a cross between Latin, medieval Castilian, and Occitan. 📜🌿🔍

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8 00:00:43,994 → 00:00:50,307 There are a lot of references to this in the Voynich manuscript, which we will now read. 9 00:00:50,307 → 00:00:57,781 And the most amazing thing, that not only the nomenclature of plants became the key to deciphering, 10 00:00:57,781 → 00:01:09,132 but also the decipherment concept it was possible especially thanks to such aspects as at first articles, and then secondly thanks to adjectives and so on, 11 00:01:09,132 → 00:01:21,840 it became possible to identify the language that it was written in medieval Galician, which was at one time popular in Aragon thanks to the works of the King Alfonso the X. 12 00:01:21,840 → 00:01:33,920 The lexicon of medieval Galician is predominantly of Latin extraction.The language was originally something like a cross between Latin, medieval Castilian and even Occitan. 13 00:01:33,920 → 00:01:41,796 Of course the most important thing for deciphering was to find as many more medieval Galician words as possible 14 00:01:41,796 → 00:01:46,928 and the morphology of the plant also helped a lot in this. 15 00:01:46,928 → 00:02:00,368 Now, of course, let’s move on to the reading itself, because the Voynich manuscript, no one has ever even read a word,

Main point

The Voynich manuscript, previously unreadable for 500 years, has been deciphered using the key of lavender. 📜💜

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16 00:02:00,368 → 00:02:04,125 and then 500 years have passed and now, thanks to the key — Lavender as a nomenclature of a plant, 17 00:02:04,125 → 00:02:10,577 it became possible to read the ENTIRE text. Surprisingly, on the last page of the Voynich manuscript , 18 00:02:10,577 → 00:02:21,185 there is one small inscription in Latin, even this inscription in plain text, without encryption, no one could read. 19 00:02:21,185 → 00:02:30,751 And the most amazing thing is that this proverb is very similar to the one that I found in the work of Johannes Rupescissa. 20 00:02:30,751 → 00:02:37,937 This is just an ordinary inscription, a saying, and in English it can be translated as 21 00:02:37,937 → 00:02:44,878 the wine will multiply in the bowl. No one has even read this usual phrase until now. 22 00:02:44,878 → 00:02:51,705 Here is the deciphered alphabet that no one could read, and here is the text itself. 23 00:02:51,705 → 00:02:58,800 The concept of decipherment contained, not only the colors of plants, fruits or a flower buds,

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The Voynich Manuscript contains a cipher that was invented in the late 15th century and continued to be used into the early 16th century. The deciphered word “root” provides additional support for the lexicon of plant morphology, including parts of the flower’s root depicted as a Tarantula spider. 📜🕷️🌱

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24 00:02:58,800 → 00:03:10,308 but also parts of the morphology of flowers, especially the root, because, immediately in the text, it was possible to find out other locations of the word root. 25 00:03:11,474 → 00:03:21,861 It was convenient to prove that this word is exactly the deciphered word the * root and provides additional support for the lexicon of plant morphology. 26 00:03:21,861 → 00:03:32,214 In reason on one folia, the root is depicted in the form of a Tarantula spider,as entomological zoomorphic implication. 27 00:03:32,214 → 00:03:43,663 the fact is that at that time many sources spoke of tarantism, a word that since the 12th century came from the city of Taranta, Italy, 28 00:03:46,167 → 00:03:51,978 and this Tarantula, this word do really exists in the Voynich manuscript 29 00:03:51,978 → 00:04:03,539 and after this word is written the word raiz root, which in both medieval Castilian and medieval Galician means root, raiz — root; in medieval Galician (Lorenzo, 1968). 30 00:04:03,539 → 00:04:09,319 *Lorenzo, R. (1968). Sobre cronologia do vocabulário galego-português. Vigo: Galaxia. 31 00:04:09,319 → 00:04:18,755 But this, of course, had to be found, because how many scientists tried to read, but still the cipher was here in the text. 32 00:04:18,755 → 00:04:30,747 It was written using specific method of encoding algorithm, such as substitution encryption of a polyalphabetic cipher with a partially monoalphabetic cipher, 33 00:04:30,747 → 00:04:41,453 which indicates that the cipher was already was invented in the late 15th century and Voynich Manuscript continued to be written even into the early 16th century. 34 00:04:43,130 → 00:04:50,956 So let’s start reading. What can we read, for example, about a beautiful flower that looks like a rose 35 00:04:50,956 → 00:05:00,000 so let’s start reading: (reading in medieval Galician) 36 00:05:00,000 → 00:05:13,051 which in the English translation means a huge rose and then, as in parentheses,

Main point

The Voynich manuscript describes plants with readable text. 🌿

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it is marked once again that it is a large rose, that is, as a plant name 37 00:05:13,051 → 00:05:24,019 it is a very strong plant with thorns. Then there is a whole text that can be read out 38 00:05:24,019 → 00:05:51,480 and there is reading in medieval Galician: 39 00:05:51,480 → 00:05:54,480 …. lang raiz, can be translated in English as a long raiz root. 40 00:05:54,480 → 00:06:03,511 And of course, the entire text of the Voynich manuscript is quite readable: it says that this is a large plant, that it has buds. 41 00:06:03,511 → 00:06:07,348 The author of the Voynich

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Voynich manuscript references Dioscorides’ works 📜🌿.

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manuscript describes the plant in such details, Dioscorides did not do this. 42 00:06:07,348 → 00:06:14,466 The Voynich manuscript makes a huge reference to the works of Dioscorides, Theophrastus, Lull, Rupessica, Arnauld de Vilanova and perhaps even Craeteus. 43 00:06:14,466 → 00:06:23,513 The deciphered alphabet is very simple, even anyone can read the text, knowing my decryption algorithm.

Main point: Show all Voynich results. 📊

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44 00:06:23,513 → 00:06:31,148 Therefore results on the Voynich manuscript are extraordinary, so all the results need to be shown at once. 45 00:06:31,148 → 00:06:45,000 Showing even a few results partially, for example. A or B is very unreasonable because other researchers 46 00:06:45,000 → 00:06:52,664 can understand the decryption algorithm and write their results on texts C, D and so on.

47 00:06:52,664 → 00:06:53,164 Thanks for attention. [Applause]

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