Шрифт Манускрипта Войнича

 
Шрифт Манускрипта Войнича был разработан на основе тайнописи Герцога Рудольфа Четвёртого (1360), известной как Alphabetum Kaldeorum, а также некоторых других подобных алфавитов. Нельзя утверждать, что система тайнописи Войнича-Хартлиба является чем-то уникальным.

Die Voynich-Hartlieb-Schriftart ist nichts Einzigartiges und stammt aus der Kryptographie (Geheimschriften) beruehmter Persoenlichkeiten wie Herzog Rudolph IV. (das Alphabetum Kaldeorum, 1360), usw.
 
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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.

   [10] Johannes Hartlieb (1448): "Encyclopedic Manuscript Containing Allegorical And Medical Drawings." - Library of Congress. - Ein Ordner mit einer Auswahl von Werken anderer Autoren, die zur Erstellung des Voynich-Manuskripts verwendet wurden