It is the book that has perplexed the academic world’s greater good. There are floating castles, disembodied heads, flowers that have no resemblance to anything on Earth, odd animals that resemble jellyfish, and a plethora of naked ladies soaking in water. Its pages are filled with a plethora of fanciful drawings - the kind you’d expect to see in a dream rather than on the pages of a centuries-old manuscript. Leaf through the manuscript’s 240 gorgeously drawn vellum pages and you’ll quickly understand why it has captivated so many people for so long. The Voynich manuscript is presently housed at Yale University’s Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library. None of these assertions have received popular support. In 2018, a pair of scholars suggested the document was created by the ancient Aztecs, given the apparent closeness of some of the scroll’s plant images to the flora of Central America.Others have suggested that the underlying language is Latin, a Romance language, or Hebrew.Some researchers believe the text is nonsense, and the document is a complex deception.The manuscript was named after Wilfrid Voynich, a Polish-born antiquarian who purchased and promoted it in the early twentieth century. If it’s written in code, no one has broken it, despite several attempts. Even stranger, the document is written in no recognised script or language. Hundreds of vivid pictures of flora, astrological patterns, and nude female figures swimming in ingeniously plumbed pools of green water adorn its 200-odd pages. ImageCredit: mediumįor generations, researchers and decipherers have been baffled by the 15th-century VOYNICH MANUSCRIPT. Their most recent attempts include computer analysis in search of new insights into the mediaeval mystery. Scholars could not decipher the obscure inscription for generations. For there is a book at the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Yale University in the United States that refuses to succumb to our unquenchable desire for knowledge and explanation. Isn’t it true that humanity can do pretty much everything it sets its mind to? We’ve placed a man on the Moon, developed general relativity theory, split the atom - the list of advances in making the impossible possible is endless. What does it imply, and who wrote it? Spencer Mizen tells the story of his effort to explain the inexplicable.
DECODED VOYNICH MANUSCRIPT FULL
The one-of-a-kind Voynich Manuscript, full of exotic images and written in an unknown language, has so far perplexed everyone who has attempted to decipher its secrets.
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