New Blog post: "Mysterious Steganography"- a Damning Observation

[davidjackson]

Oh, I'm not at all convinced the letters refer to the voynich, although I could be swayed either way.
The difficulty is in the use of the word used in the letters: deciphering, rather than translating.

Marci is talking about a mysterious book whose previous owner has spent a lot of time and effort in “deciphering” (point 2). Not reading or translating but trying – and failing utterly – to decipher. He is talking about a suspected unbreakable code book. The previous owner was obviously obsessed with it, hence the phrase about not giving up hope until his death.

For the letters to be referring to the voynich, you would have to postulate that these scholars recognised it to be in a code, not a foreign script.