The manuscript is the result of a brainstorming session of highly gifted people, probable at least a Savant was also present, which was not created in a few days. I tried to clarify on my pages, that the manuscript has been created by highly intelligent people. You can find a full description at Yale’s Voynich catalog record, and perhaps form your own theory of how a book that seems so fluidly written, so packed with intended meaning, can become a complete mystery.
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Meanwhile, researchers at Delaware State University argued the manuscript may have its origins in central Mexico after analyzing the nature of the bizarre plant illustrations. A linguist at the University of Bedfordshire in the UK proposed sounds to match the symbols, declaring he had decoded 14 of them. Some still speculate it is all a hoax, but carbon dating at least confirms its age, and even this year researchers are attempting to puzzle out the meaning from this book no one can be read.
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There its curvy writing in brownish-black ink, flowers sometimes sprouting animal parts like something from a deranged herbal, and zodiac charts beckon code breakers. It arrived at Yale in 1969 impressively intact, housed now in the Beinecke as the star obscurity among an incredible trove of rare texts. Believed to have been created in Central Europe, its path over the centuries is unclear - at one point in the 17th century it was reportedly sent to Athanasius Kircher, scholar of the scientific and the strange.
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Voynich, who for the rest of his life tried and failed to derive meaning from the manuscript apparently about the natural world.
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In 1912, the manuscript started to make its way into contemporary conscious when it was acquired by antique book dealer Wilfrid M. As the library explained to Hyperallergic, recent conservation work addressed folds and curls that had previously blocked some pages, and new scanning equipment made the color more accurate and didn’t require so much securing with straps on the delicate pages. Digital versions were previously available to the curious through the Beinecke, but the new scans are even sharper, and in sequential order you can closely examine each page. Voynich Manuscript (courtesy Yale University Library) ( click to enlarge)Īs the Yale Daily News reported last week and aficionados discovered online, new high-resolution scans of the manuscript were recently posted at Yale University’s Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library site.