Gordon Rugg‘s hoax-is-a-possibility theory, which makes use of a modified Cardan Grille to simulate some (but not all) of the oddly-structured nature of the Voynichese text.Richard Rogers claims that the VMs is an ultra-terse Renaissance drawing language, to describe (presumably) heretical symbols without actually drawing them.Rolando Hernandez Rivero posted that the Voynich Manuscript was written in “Old Spanish” (but with bits of Latin and English thrown in).Nick Pelling‘s theory that Antonio Averlino was the author of the VMs.Chris Parry‘s assertion that the VMs is a-pretend-foreign-language-fake.Ursula Papke has a kind of NLP-like transcendental interpretation of the Voynich glyphs, wherein each glyph gets decomposed into constituent strokes, and the kind of “stroke harmonies” that implicitly make up individual words are interpreted to tell a kind of rising/falling/looping narrative.William Romaine Newbold sensationally claimed that the VMs was written by Roger Bacon in a multi-layered micrographic cipher, and described using telescopes to view galaxies.Morris suspects that the VMs might have something to do with Hieronymus Reusner‘s Pandora (a version of the ‘Buch der heiligen Dreifaltigkeit’). Claude Martin‘s assertion that the VMs is not only number-encoded (rather like Brumbaugh), but also meaningless.Jody Maat believes that the VMs is readable as a (vaguely polyglot) Old Dutch.Leo Levitov‘s Cathar Theory (as summarized & criticized by Dennis Stallings).Erhard Landmann posted up his theories on the VMs in German here, and in French here , and in English here.Miguel Lahunkun (a notorious Internet poster) claimed to have decrypted the VMs in a Google Groups post.Volkhard Huth concludes that the VMs came from around Germany, and dates it to around 1480-1500.George Hoschel Jr thinks that the VMs is a strange kind of recipe book in “Old Latin” (where f80v says “SAVED CRUMBLED DRIED TO HOOPOE KIDNEY”, etc).Wayne Herschel is certain that the star disk on page f68r3 of the Voynich Manuscript is a hidden record of a golden plate with secret writing given to Judas by Jesus Christ.Beatrice Gwynn from Dublin thinks it’s a sixteenth-century hygiene manual, written in left-right mirrored Middle High German.Jacques Guy on the enduring life of his Chinese Hypothesis.William Friedmann proposed that the manuscript is written in an artificial language, not unlike Dalgarno’s Real Character.James Finn (“Big Jim”)‘s theory that the VMs is written in Hebrew, and warns of a coming end-time.See Mary D’Imperio’s “Elegant Enigma” for more, and a fuller account in Kennedy & Churchill pp.109-115. Joseph Martin Feely constructed what he believed to be a partial decipherment of page f78r, but his claimed “clews” and his mangled Latin failed to convince any cryptologist.Most of it is covered by his main web-page, but there is an additional “Folding KEY 101” page here. Steve Ekwall posted two webpages on the Voynich as revealed to him by an “Excitant Spirit” in October 2000.Karel Dudek tries to argue that the VMs was created by Georg Handsch of Limuz.Erich von Däniken covers the Voynich Manuscript in his (2009) book “History Is Wrong”, linking it with the Book of Enoch and a whole load of other things.Jim Comegys believes that the VMs was a medical book written in Nahuatl (the language of the Aztec) possibly by Francisco Hernandez, and has written a book describing his claim.Jim Child, an Indo-European linguist who has been studying the VMS since the late 1970s, sees Voynichese as a pronounceable early German language.Dan Burisch claims that the VMs was written down in enciphered Hebrew by Roger Bacon, and that it describes some kind of alien technology from the future for creating DNA with sound.Either way, Brumbaugh thought the alphabet was a lossy number cipher, with each glyph basically standing in for an Arabic numeral. See D’Imperio’s “Elegant Enigma”, section 5.4. Robert S. Brumbaugh came to various conclusions about the VMs (many of which hinged on his interpretations of the short number columns on f49r), such as that it was a 16th century cipher, or (later) a 16th century fake of a 15th century cipher.Zbigniew Banasik claimed that the VMs is written in the Manchu language (summary and links by Jorge Stolfi).Tim Ackerson is quite sure that the VMs was written in Early Welsh / Old Cornish from the 7th to 8th century AD.If you have ever found yourself asking “ Where can I found out about XYZ’s moderately-loopy-but-eerily-hard-to-disprove Voynich Manuscript theory?“, then you’ve come to the right place. Here’s very probably the longest list of such theories on the Internet…
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