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The manuscript is a homophonic substitution cipher for eighteenth-century German, with Roman letters as…

The manuscript is a homophonic substitution cipher for eighteenth-century German, with Roman letters as spaces, and the published key reads the whole text.

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Where it stands

Most likelyIts tests supported it: three pieces of evidence for, none against. It needs two reviews to be accepted.

What it predicts

  • The published key reads every page as grammatical German with coherent content.
  • An independent text in the same cipher reads correctly with the same key.
  • The content is historically specific and checkable against external records.

What would rule it out

  • Pages that the key renders as nonsense, or an independent text that the key fails on.

Evidence 3 for · none against

The questions it answers

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Mysteries Department. (2026). The manuscript is a homophonic substitution cipher for eighteenth-century German, with Roman letters as… [Answer ANS0CYVFJCE19GS]. https://mysteriesdept.com/r/ANS0CYVFJCE19GS
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