Войнич

 
Иллюстрации к театральной постановке "Das Voynich-Manuscript oder der Yuppie-Blues"
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...Последние годы я тщетно пытался пробиться в этой жизни в качестве свободного художника. Картины на произвольные темы давно перестали продаваться, практика уличного художника уже не приносила дохода, и я ограничился исключительно работой по заказам. Я потерял себя, утратил внутреннюю идею и из творческого человека со временем превратился в какого-то яппи. И как-то в приступе самоиронии я даже самопроизвольно сочинил о себе яппи-блюз:

День и ночь. Свет и мгла.
Сутки прочь. Жизнь дотла…
Бизнес-план. План-проспект.
Ателье. Арт-проект.

Телефон. Телефакс.
Краткий сон через раз…
Календарь. Суета.
Вечер. Хмарь. Пустота…

Это — яппи-блюз,
Мой яппи-блюз!
Жизнь стала однобокой,
Скривила, словно флюс…

Это — яппи-блюз,
Мой яппи-блюз!
Как сбросить ненавистной
Рутины тяжкий груз?

...В конце августа 2015 года я получил по почте заказ на портрет с фотографии. Я немедля принялся за работу, но всё валилось из рук. В углу что-то бурчал включённый телевизор, поддерживая рабочую атмосферу. Вдруг диктор заговорил о только что расшифрованной Рукописи Вoйнича. Оказалось, что эта рукопись была написана в замке Блютенбург! Прошло несколько недель… Работа не клеилась… В поисках вдохновения я посетил замок Блютенбург, где неожиданно наткнулся на экспонат, заставивший меня вспомнить о том телевизионном репортаже. В замке была выставлена Рукопись Войнича...

...Die letzten Jahren versuchte ich vergeblich, mich in diesem Leben als freiberuflicher Kuenstler zu positionieren. Meine Gemaelde wurden laengst nicht mehr gekauft, die Arbeit als Strassenkuenstler brachte kaum Einkommen, und ich beschraenkte mich nur noch auf reine Auftragsarbeit. Mit der Zeit verwandelte ich mich so von einer ehemals kreativen Person in einen Yuppie. Und eines Tages schrieb ich in einem Ausbruch von Selbstironie den Yuppie-Blues ueber mich selbst:
  
  Taeglich. Rund um die Uhr.
  Jahrelang. Und wofuer?
  Business-Plan. Plan-Prospekt.
  Atelier. Kunstprojekt.
  
  Telefon. Telefax.
  Wenig Schlaf wegen DAX!
  Krise kommt! Dann Progress.
  Atemnot! Ewig Stress!
  
  Das ist der Yuppie-Blues,
  mein Yuppie-Blues.
  Wie mache ich mit meinem
  alten Leben Schluss?
  
  Das ist der Yuppie-Blues,
  mein Yuppie-Blues.
  Na, schoen, dann sag ich gern
  dem alten Leben Tschuess.

...Ende August 2015 bekam ich den Auftrag, anhand eines Fotos das Portrait zu zeichnen. Noch am selben Tag begann ich mit der Arbeit, waehrend im Hintergrund der Fernseher lief. Zufaellig hoerte ich die Nachricht von dem vor kurzem entzifferten Voynich-Manuskript, und es stellte sich heraus, dass das Manuskript von Doktor Kaspar Bernauer im Schloss Blutenburg verfasst wurde. Auf der Suche nach einer Inspiration beschloss ich, das Schloss Blutenburg zu besuchen. Dort fand ich mich unerwartet in einer Ausstellung wieder, die praesentierte das Voynich-Manuskript...

https://amelkin.livejournal.com/

NB: "In the Blutenburg Castle (Schloss Blutenburg, old ducal country seat in the west of Munich, Germany) balneotherapist Caspar Bernauer (1385-1450) after the execution of his daughter Agnes (1435) wrote the story of the castle and its inhabitants in his native Post-Rhaetian language. So the Voynich Manuscript was born. The castle was built in 1431–40 between two arms of the River Wuerm for Duke Albert III Wittelsbach, Duke of Bavaria, and his  first wife Agnes Bernauer in the tradition of the Danube School of Architecture using "dovetail" elements for the fortress walls. In 1440, Albert refused the offered Bohemian crown and presented one of the Voynich Manuscript copies to the House of Habsburg in Prague. Therefore, the key to the mysterious Voynich Manuscript code should be sought in the archives of the House of Habsburg in Prague and of the House of Wittelsbach in Munich. According to my theory the Rhaetian people (to which belonged Caspar Bernauer) are descended from the Proto-Basques. Since I defined the language of the manuscript as Post-Rhaetian, it could be probably in some degree similar to Basque language. According to John D. Bengston, Helmut Rix, Ed Robertson and Sergei Starostin Rhaetian language could be relative to Basque, Etruscan and Hurrian languages."



On the Voynich Manuscript

The concept originated with the magician Johannes Hartlieb. In the 15th century, over five distinct copies of the Voynich Manuscript were produced by a workshop of scribes — involving at least five different copyists who were authorized to generate their own text and illustrations based on the original manuscript written by Dr. Hartlieb. It is a work of nonsense created for commercial purposes — a sort of fortune-telling book used during magical sessions. What has survived to the present day is a compilation of various copies, bound together later in the wrong order. Manuscripts were often left unbound in those days; instead, they were stored as loose sheets in special cases.

I would like to dwell briefly on the magical sessions involving these manuscripts. How did it all come about? Albrecht III of Bavaria was married to Duchess Anna. Anna spent almost all her time at the castle, occupied with childcare and a state of perpetual pregnancy. She was terribly bored and tormented herself with fits of jealousy. Her only serious pastime was white magic — a pursuit she shared with many neighboring duchesses. Witnessing his wife’s distress, Albrecht turned for help to Dr. Johannes Hartlieb — his court physician, diplomat, advisor, and author of numerous books, as well as his brother-in-law. Doctor Hartlieb was renowned as a leading expert in numerous fields — specifically white magic, alchemy, astrology, levitation, metamorphosology, phytobalneology, cryptography, pharmacology, phytotherapy, botany, physiology, and more. Johannes Hartlieb responded to Duke Albrecht’s request and proposed that Anna engage in sessions of white magic and fortune-telling. He wrote an illustrated book on palmistry — *Chiromancy* — specifically for Duchess Anna. Anna was overjoyed by the gift and immediately gathered the local high society at Blutenburg Castle for her first white magic session. However, palmistry soon bored her due to its monotony and lack of popularity. She declared, "Ich will mehr!" ("I want more!"). At that moment, Doctor Hartlieb had a brilliant idea: he could kill two birds with one stone. He would produce multiple copies of a secret fortune-telling book for simultaneous white magic sessions at various castles; during these sessions, clients would have their fortunes told regarding their health and be directed to Doctor Hartlieb’s pharmacies and clinics for treatment and preventive care. He gathered all his manuscripts and cryptographic methods and wrote the text known today as the Voynich Manuscript. Hartlieb intentionally created nonsense text, which allowed for any kind of forecast or prediction to be made during the sessions. He took the manuscript to a scribal workshop and ordered up to ten copies. Five scribes worked on the manuscripts simultaneously; to speed up the process, they were authorized to generate the "words" themselves. The rest of the story is well known.

Dr. Alexander Amelkin faces accusations that the arguments supporting his hypothesis regarding the origin of the Voynich Manuscript are unscientific. I present here some devastating counterarguments — irrefutable facts. Try to dispute them. (1) Dr. Hartlieb was born in 1400, not 1410; otherwise, he could not possibly have participated in the Hussite Wars in 1419. (2) Dr. Hartlieb was the only person at the time who possessed the full spectrum of knowledge covered in the Voynich Manuscript. His works and materials contain drawings and diagrams resembling the manuscript's graphic content. Hartlieb’s *Medico-Astrological Calendar* features various scripts and cipher systems incorporating up to 70% of the symbols found in the Voynich Manuscript, including the inscription "Michitonese." (3) Dr. Hartlieb did not write the Voynich Manuscript himself; instead, he commissioned five scribes to produce up to ten different versions based on his drafts, allowing them the freedom to generate words and drawings within certain parameters. This is evidenced by certain duplicated pages that differ in handwriting and detail. (4) Regarding the depiction of the castle in the manuscript, researchers note that the fortress's general layout — four towers connected by walls, a moat or river, and a central building (*Herrenhaus*) — mirrors the original structure of Blutenburg Castle from that era with remarkable accuracy. This has led to the hypothesis that Hartlieb sketched Blutenburg Castle in his draft, while the scribes added the characteristic crenellations to the walls.


   LITERATURE
 
   [1] Franz Kuerschner (1872): "Herzog Rudolph's IV. Schriftdenkmale." - In: Mittheilungen der K.K. Central-Commission zur Erforschung und Erhaltung der Baudenkmale, 17 (1872), 71-80
 
   [2] Marco Heiles (2021): "Johannes Hartlieb: Life and Work Before 1441: Also a Contribution to the Methodology of Writer Identification / Johannes Hartlieb: Leben und Werk vor 1441: Zugleich ein Beitrag zur Schreiberidentifizierung." - Zeitschrift fuer deutsches Altertum und deutsche Literatur, 2021, Vol.150 (3), p.337-379
 
   [3] Stefan Guzy (2022): "Book transactions of Emperor Rudolf II 1576-1612. New findings on the earliest ownership of the Voynich manuscript." - International Conference on the Voynich Manuscript 2022, The University of Malta.
 
   [4] Alexander Amelkin (2016): "Das Voynich-Manuskript", Munich, http://feeria.de.
 
   [5] Johannes Hartlieb (1440): "Kraeuterbuch", Kap. 31, 32, 88, 131, 150, 157 und 162
 
   [6] Johannes Hartlieb u.a. (1456): "Medizinischastrologischer Kalender." - BSB Cgm 7958, Muenchen, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Kurzaufnahme einer Handschrift, BSB-ID 991048728419707356, Digitalisiert von Bayerischer Staatsbibliothek am 20.10.2022, Seite 50
 
   [7] Bernhard Bischoff (1954): "Uebersicht ueber die nichtdiplomatischen Geheimschriften des Mittelalters." - In: Mitteilungen des Instituts fuer Oesterreichische Geschichtsforschung, vol. 62 (1954), 1-27
 
   [8] Keagan Brewer (2021): "The Voynich Manuscript, Dr Johannes Hartlieb, and the Emotions underpinning Gynaeco-sexual Encipherment." - SMRG Talk – The Voynich MS, Sydney Mediaeval & Renaissance Group, AEMA News.
 
   [9] Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis (2020): "How Many Glyphs and How Many Scribes? Digital Paleography and the Voynich Manuscript." - Manuscript Studies: A Journal of the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies, Vol. 5, No. 1, 2020.