Marco PonziinViridisGreenA transcription and translation of the so-called “Alchemical herbal”An illustrated Latin text discussing 98 medicinal herbs appears in several Italian manuscripts, the earliest of which is Bodley Canon…Dec 15, 2023Dec 15, 2023
Marco PonziinViridisGreenNeural-Network transliteration of the Codex SeraphinianusA while ago I applied to the Voynich manuscript the neural-network software for handwritten text recognition discussed by Harald Scheidl.Aug 26, 2023Aug 26, 2023
Marco PonziinViridisGreenNeural-Network Handwritten Text Recognition for the Voynich manuscriptThe subject of this post is a supervised OCR system for the automatic transliteration of handwritten text in the Voynich manuscript…Jan 31, 20232Jan 31, 20232
Marco PonziinViridisGreenA Latin document by Vlad DraculaThe Guardian British newspaper recently published a photograph by Gleb Zilberstein of “a letter written by Vlad Dracula in 1475 to the…Dec 15, 20221Dec 15, 20221
Marco PonziinViridisGreenMythical Origins of the Visconti Coat of ArmsNear year 1000, in Northern Italy the vice-comes (viscount) was an official often in charge of military command. In Milan, around the year…Nov 26, 2022Nov 26, 2022
Marco PonziinViridisGreenThe mnemonic snake in “Secretum de Thesauro” (Giovanni Fontana, 1430 ca)“Secretum de thesauro experimentorum ymaginationis hominum” (secret of the treasure of experiments in man’s imagination, BNF NAL 635) is a…Jul 20, 2021Jul 20, 2021
Marco PonziinViridisGreenVoynichese Part of Speech tagging: an updateThis post is an update of the Voynich Part Of Speech (POS) tagging research I began exploring in February 2019. Please refer to that post…Feb 8, 2021Feb 8, 2021
Marco PonziinViridisGreenThe “Calcatrice” Dragon from an Italian Moralized BestiaryThe anonymous “Book about the Nature of Animals” (Libro della Natura degli Animali) is a late medieval Italian bestiary that survives in a…Nov 16, 2020Nov 16, 2020
Marco PonziinViridisGreenA T-O Trinity DiagramThe three continents known to the medieval West in the middle ages were often represents by T-O diagrams. This arrangement derives from…Aug 23, 2020Aug 23, 2020
Marco PonziinViridisGreenConjuration ciphers in Trithemius’s “Steganographia”“Steganographia” by Johannes Trithemius was written in 1500 ca. and first printed in 1606. In a 1998 paper, Jim Reeds summarizes the…Apr 17, 2020Apr 17, 2020