[tied] Re: Unknown alphabet (a.k.a Song)

> Naaah, it isn't. This "alphabet" in which is written a funny
> Middle Ages book called "Codex Rohonczy" (from which the image
> was taken) uses some thousands of different signs, unlike the
> Aramaic real (phonological) alphabet. It is true that it "looks
> like" (in some sense) Aramaish, as if they'd using more or less
> similar font charsets :-), but sign-to-sign similarities are to
> be considered purely coincidental (since with a reduced number
> of lines, in a charset of about 800 entries, one would surely
> find out some similarities with some other characters composed
> by a small number of lines too) and there are more Aramaic
> letters without visual correspondent in this text. See also:
> http://www.historian.net/files.htm
> http://www.omniglot.com/writing/aramaic.htm
>
> The "book" is written in an unknown language with a unknown
> alphabet and some people strangely believe it has something to
> do with early Romanian history (thus explaining Alex' interest
> in the alphabet), but I find practically no argument which
> would support such a statement: the document would suggest
> merely Occidental idiomatisms (as cryptic script, pictures, etc.).
>
> Without other comments about this object, I provide here the
> link to a web-page presenting all the pages of the book; those
> who want to have fun may take a look:
>
> http://www.dr-savescu.com/codex/original/original.html
>
> Regards,
> Marius Iacomi

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Interesting. It reminds me of the Voynich manuscript (discussed
in thousands of sites on the Web), a beautifully written and
elaborately illustrated herbal(?)that turned up several hundred
years ago, also in an unknown language and an unknown script. My
guess is that it is an elaborate hoax meant to be sold to royalty at
a high price (as it was).
If the Codex Rohonczy is unreadable, what's the Romanian
connection? Provenance?
Dan Milton