Voynich manuscript - Description

The Voynich manuscript is a mysterious illustrated book of unknown contents, written some 600 years ago by an anonymous author in an unidentified alphabet and unintelligible language. Over its recorded existence, the Voynich manuscript has been the object of intense study by many professional and amateur cryptographers — including some top American and British codebreakers of World War II fame — who all failed to decipher a single word. This string of failures has turned the Voynich manuscript into the Holy Grail of histori ...

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• Voynich manuscript - Description
• Voynich manuscript - Illustrations
• Voynich manuscript - The text
• Voynich manuscript - History
• Voynich manuscript - Theories about authorship
• Voynich manuscript - Roger Bacon
• Voynich manuscript - John Dee
• Voynich manuscript - Edward Kelley
• Voynich manuscript - Wilfrid Voynich
• Voynich manuscript - Jacobus Sinapius
• Voynich manuscript - Jan Marci
• Voynich manuscript - Raphael Mnishovsky
• Voynich manuscript - Anthony Ascham
• Voynich manuscript - Theories about contents and purpose
• Voynich manuscript - Herbal
• Voynich manuscript - Sunflowers
• Voynich manuscript - Alchemy
• Voynich manuscript - Alchemical herbal
• Voynich manuscript - Astrological herbal
• Voynich manuscript - Microscopes and telescopes
• Voynich manuscript - Multiple authors
• Voynich manuscript - Theories about the language
• Voynich manuscript - Letter-based cipher
• Voynich manuscript - Codebook cipher
• Voynich manuscript - Visual cipher
• Voynich manuscript - Micrography
• Voynich manuscript - Steganography
• Voynich manuscript - Exotic natural language
• Voynich manuscript - Polyglot tongue
• Voynich manuscript - Constructed language
• Voynich manuscript - Hoax
• Voynich manuscript - Influence on popular culture

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By current estimates, the book originally had 272 pages in 17 quires of 16 pages each [2]. Only about 240 vellum pages remain today, and gaps in the page numbering (which seems to be later than the text) indicate that several pages were already missing by the time that Voynich acquired it. A quill pen was used for the text and figure outlines, and colored paint was applied (somewhat crudely) to the figures, possibly at a later date. See also:

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Many theories have been advanced as to the nature of the Voynich manuscript "language". Here is a partial list: Voynich manuscript - Letter-based cipher. According to this theory, the Voynich manuscript contains a meaningful text in some European language, that was intentionally rendered obscure by mapping it to the Voynich manuscript "alphabet" through a ciphe ...

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Many names have been proposed as possible authors of the Voynich manuscript. Here are only the most popular ones. Voynich manuscript - Roger Bacon. Marci's 1665 cover letter to Kircher says that, according to his late friend Raphael Mnishovsky, the book had once been bought by Emperor Rudolf II of Bohemia (1552–1612) for 600 ducats — several thousand US dollars in today's money. According to the letter, Rudolf (or perhaps Raphael) believed the author to ...

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The history of the manuscript is still full of gaps, especially in its earliest part.[3] Since the manuscript's alphabet does not resemble any known script, and the text is still undeciphered, the only useful evidence as to the book's age and origin are the illustrations — especially the dress and hairstyles of the human figures, and a couple of castles that are seen in the diagrams. They are all characteristically European, and based on that evidence most experts assign the book to dates between 1450 and 1520. This e ...

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The overall impression given by the surviving leaves of the manuscript suggests that it was meant to serve as a pharmacopoeia or to address topics in medieval or early modern medicine. However, the puzzling details of illustrations have fueled many theories about the book's origins, the contents of its text, and the purpose for which it was intended. Here are only a few of them: Voynich manuscript - Herbal. The first section of the book is almost certainly an herbal, but attempts to identify the plants, ei ...

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