An elegant hoax? A possible solution to the Voynich manuscript

Gordon Rugg, 2004. Cryptologia 28(1): 31–46.

Shows that a table of syllables read through a Cardan grille, a sixteenth-century device, can produce Voynich-like text quickly, which makes a hoax a workable explanation.

Voynich ManuscriptArticledoi: 10.1080/0161-110491892755Checked against the original0

What it's used for here

The book includes Rugg's table and grille among the six generators it fits to the text, and discusses it as the main case for meaningless text.

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Rugg, G. (2004). An elegant hoax? A possible solution to the Voynich manuscript. Cryptologia, 28(1), 31–46. https://doi.org/10.1080/0161-110491892755

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Rugg, Gordon. “An elegant hoax? A possible solution to the Voynich manuscript.” Cryptologia 28, no. 1 (2004): 31–46. https://doi.org/10.1080/0161-110491892755.