hoax theories about the voynich manuscript

Author

Methods & Findings

BRUMBAUGH (1975)

BRUMBAUGH (1976)

BRUMBAUGH (1977)

Various Studies of the original manuscript at Yale University [1]

Theory that the VMS was a forgery to fool Rudolph II, Emperor of Bohemia, to gain a large sum of money, writtten in an artificial language based on Latin and encrypted in a simple substitution cipher with multiple plain text equivalents. [2]

BARLOW (1986)

Theory that W. M. Voynich faked the VMS. [3]

WILLIAMS (1999)

Author thinks the initial letter distribution is like that of Greek, but speculates the text is meaningless. [4]

RUGG (2004)

RUGG (2004a)

RUGG & AYLWARD (2004)

Theory that words might have been generated using a 'Cardan Grille' [5]

TIMM (2014)

Analysis of relations "between similary spelled words" [6]

Script is a meaningless pseudo text generated by the way of repeating and altering glyph groups.