InViridisGreenbyMarco Ponzi·Dec 15, 2023A transcription and translation of the so-called “Alchemical herbal”An illustrated Latin text discussing 98 medicinal herbs appears in several Italian manuscripts, the earliest of which is Bodley Canon…A response icon1A response icon1
InViridisGreenbyMarco Ponzi·Aug 26, 2023Neural-Network transliteration of the Codex Seraphinianus(The transliteration can be downloaded from github)
InViridisGreenbyMarco Ponzi·Jan 31, 2023Neural-Network Handwritten Text Recognition for the Voynich manuscriptThe subject of this post is a supervised OCR system for the automatic transliteration of handwritten text in the Voynich manuscript…A response icon3A response icon3
InViridisGreenbyMarco Ponzi·Dec 15, 2022A Latin document by Vlad DraculaThe Guardian British newspaper recently published a photograph by Gleb Zilberstein of “a letter written by Vlad Dracula in 1475 to the…A response icon1A response icon1
InViridisGreenbyMarco Ponzi·Nov 26, 2022Mythical Origins of the Visconti Coat of ArmsNear year 1000, in Northern Italy the vice-comes (viscount) was an official often in charge of military command. In Milan, around the year…
InViridisGreenbyMarco Ponzi·Jul 20, 2021The mnemonic snake in “Secretum de Thesauro” (Giovanni Fontana, 1430 ca)“Secretum de thesauro experimentorum ymaginationis hominum” (secret of the treasure of experiments in man’s imagination, BNF NAL 635) is a…
InViridisGreenbyMarco Ponzi·Feb 8, 2021Voynichese Part of Speech tagging: an updateThis post is an update of the Voynich Part Of Speech (POS) tagging research I began exploring in February 2019. Please refer to that post…
InViridisGreenbyMarco Ponzi·Nov 16, 2020The “Calcatrice” Dragon from an Italian Moralized BestiaryThe anonymous “Book about the Nature of Animals” (Libro della Natura degli Animali) is a late medieval Italian bestiary that survives in a…
InViridisGreenbyMarco Ponzi·Aug 23, 2020A T-O Trinity DiagramThe three continents known to the medieval West in the middle ages were often represents by T-O diagrams. This arrangement derives from…
InViridisGreenbyMarco Ponzi·Apr 17, 2020Conjuration ciphers in Trithemius’s “Steganographia”“Steganographia” by Johannes Trithemius was written in 1500 ca. and first printed in 1606. In a 1998 paper, Jim Reeds summarizes the…
