Ancient Cryptography
General => Other Mysteries => Topic started by: Paul Ferguson on January 29, 2013, 08:50:25 PM
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Hi,
Can anyone help with the alchemical cipher mentioned in the thread here:
http://www.alchemydiscussion.com/view_topic.php?id=650&forum_id=8
That forum is a closed forum so please reply here or e-mail me at caesariensis@gmail.com
Many thanks for any help you can provide :-*
Paul
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Welcome to the forums, Paul! :D That manuscript bears some similarity to the Voynich manuscript in terms of style, but other than that I haven't any ideas just yet. But hopefully one of our forum members could help!
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Hi Aaron,
Thanks for the welcome. I thought it looked a bit Voynichy too.
Two further observations:
1. Language is almost certainly 17th century English or Latin
2. If it is a simple substitution code there is a 4-character word ABCD, a 3-character word ABD, and a 6(?)-character word EDAADF
Fingers crossed,
Paul
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Line for line -
??? excellently well uvresie
by salt dissolve or melt it
downs in some convenient vessel
over ye giertzzen strow some
vitrius so any mettal leasvualy va
pon it & soe by dacrees it
will melt in it & become
ivisible
best I can do with that image
Tony
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That's brilliant Tony B!
We're getting a clearer image of the text.
Thanks so much,
P :)
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'giertzzen' now thats a lovely word, missed the dividing dot - it should be
over the fier then strow some
also mixed up sulphur with vitrius - perhaps that produces giertzzen :)
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The latest table of equivalents and decipherment effort are the ninth and tenth posts in this thread:
http://www.alchemydiscussion.com/view_topic.php?id=650&forum_id=8
Many thanks again to TonyB for his great efforts :-*
P
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600 dpi scan of the Dissolution inscription available online at:
http://mail.nysoclib.org/Digital_Archives/misc/dissolution/nysoclib_dissolution.jpg
TIF image (also at 600 dpi) can be downloaded here:
http://mail.nysoclib.org/Digital_Archives/misc/dissolution/
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I'll go with this -
Tooke excellently well purifie
bay salt dissolve or melt it
downe in some convenient vessel
over ye fier then strow some
sulphur of any mettall leasuarly up
pon it & soe by dagrees it
will melt in it & become
fusible
Tony