“A magisterial book, a major work” – Prof. Gerhard F. Strasser (cryptologist, linguist)
“Anyone wishing to make a serious contribution to research into the Voynich Manuscript faces a formidable learning curve. They need a sophisticated understanding of topics ranging from the statistical meaning of the carbon 14 dates for the manuscript to the practical issues involved in producing a large manuscript by hand, and from cryptology to linguistics.
This book is an excellent resource for serious researchers. One example is its coverage of common abbreviations in everyday mediaeval Latin documents, which result in text very different from standard formal Latin. This has very significant implications for any argument that the manuscript contains encoded Latin text. These are issues that serious researchers in this field need to know about, but have received very little attention elsewhere. This book would be worth reading for this section alone.
The author is careful to distinguish between his own proposed solution and the background context of the manuscript, including codes and ciphers of the period, and the people who created them. Overall, this is an excellent contribution to Voynich studies.”
– Dr Gordon Rugg, Keele University