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World’s Most Mysterious Manuscript ~ The Voynich Code – Full Documentary




No living person has cracked the code.

The Voynich’s Manuscript is an illustrated codex hand-written in an unknown writing system. The book has been carbon-dated to the early 15ᵗʰ century (1404–1438), and may have been composed in Northern Italy during the Italian Renaissance. The manuscript is named after Wilfrid Voynich, a book dealer who purchased it in 1912.

The pages of the codex are vellum. Some of the pages are missing, but about 240 remain. The text is written from left to right, and most of the pages have illustrations or diagrams. Many people have speculated that the writing might be nonsense. However, in 2013., Marcelo Montemurro of the University of Manchester and Damian Zanette of the Bariloche Atomic Center published a paper documenting their identification of a semantic pattern in the writing. This suggests that The Voynich’s manuscript is a ciphertext with a message.

For centuries, scientists have been trying to decipher the text. Some of the world’s best cryptographers have dedicated their lives to solving the puzzle – but no one’s even gotten close.

“The Voynich Manuscript has led some of the smartest people down rabbit holes for centuries,” Bill Sherman from the Folger Shakespeare Library told The Washington Post in 2014, when he was about to open an exhibit on the text.

I think we need a little disclaimer form you need to sign before you look at the manuscript, that says, ‘Do not blame us if you go crazy.'”

The manuscript is currently locked up in the vault of Yale University’s Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library. Because of its age and incredible rarity, very few people have ever actually touched it, and for those who have, let’s just say it’s not something you’d easily forget.

“Touching the Voynich is an experience,” Juan Jose Garcia, director of the Spanish publishing house Siloe, told Agence France-Presse. “It’s a book that has such an aura of mystery that when you see it for the first time … it fills you with an emotion that is very hard to describe.”

So what’s the deal with this book?

For centuries, it was believed to have been written by a 13th century English Franciscan friar and ‘wizard’, Roger Bacon, who was so wrapped up in alchemy and magic landed, he ended up in jail.

It was only once carbon dating had become a viable dating technique that this hypothesis was disproved, as the manuscript was found to have originated between 1404 and 1438.

While some have suspected the work to have been penned by a young Leonardo da Vinci, and maybe even aliens, no one’s been able to definitively nail down an author.

Rather than being named after its author then, it’s named after Lithuanian antiquarian Wilfrid Voynich, who reportedly purchased it in 1912 from a collection of rare books belonging to the Jesuits in Italy, and was responsible for making it famous.

What’s immediately unusual about the text is its many illustrations, which lurch out from the borders of the page, crowding the text in colourful and surreal renderings of bizarre plants, human figures, and unknown constellations.

Some of the pictures are actually pretty disturbing, with the Beinecke Library describing images of women with “swelled abdomens” that are “immersed or wading in fluids and oddly interacting with interconnecting tubes and capsules”.

But the strangeness of these pictures is dwarfed by the text it all but obscures.

“It doesn’t match any other language that’s been seen in any other book,” Reed Johnson, host of NPR’s Weekend Edition Sunday said back in 2013, when he was writing a book about the Voynich Manuscript.

“The drawings often have labels, which would seem to offer a route to deciphering the code. But that hope has proved to be an illusion,” he says, adding that trying to decipher the code is like trying to climb a wall, but realising all the easy hand-holds are actually just painted on, so you can never get a grip on it.

“My own experience with this manuscript has only been three years, so I’m a rank amateur,” he adds.

While there will likely be a handful of enthusiasts who will grab a copy when they become available, libraries and research institutions will end up with most of the 898, and with greater access given to the greatest minds in the world, maybe someone will have a Eureka moment.

Or maybe we’ll all fall down our own rabbit holes, and the mystery author will have the last laugh forever from the grave.

As Garcia told the AFP, the author could have been a genius, but “could also have been a sadist, as he has us all wrapped up in this mystery”.

If you want to have a browse or maybe you think you can solve it, you can check out the digitised pages here.

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  1. Nikolai says:

    Good day!
    Your site has information about the Voynich manuscript.
    I am deciphering the Voynich manuscript and received a positive result.
    There is a key to cipher the Voynich manuscript.
    The key to the cipher manuscript placed in the manuscript. It is placed throughout the text. Part of the key hints is placed on the sheet 14. With her help was able to translate a few dozen words that are completely relevant to the theme sections.
    The Voynich manuscript is not written with letters. It is written in signs. Characters replace the letters of the alphabet one of the ancient language. Moreover, in the text there are 2 levels of encryption. I figured out the key by which the first section could read the following words: hemp, wearing hemp; food, food (sheet 20 at the numbering on the Internet); to clean (gut), knowledge, perhaps the desire, to drink, sweet beverage (nectar), maturation (maturity), to consider, to believe (sheet 107); to drink; six; flourishing; increasing; intense; peas; sweet drink, nectar, etc. Is just the short words, 2-3 sign. To translate words with more than 2-3 characters requires knowledge of this ancient language. The fact that some symbols represent two letters. In the end, the word consisting of three characters can fit up to six letters. Three letters are superfluous. In the end, you need six characters to define the semantic word of three letters. Of course, without knowledge of this language make it very difficult even with a We can say that the Voynich manuscript is an encyclopedia of knowledge that humanity needs today. I managed to partially solve the mystery of mount Kailas ( for example, its height is 6825 meters). The manuscript indicates the place where the Grail Is hidden, as well as the Font and Cradle of Jesus.
    For more information, see my article https://scieuro.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/february-2020.pdf
    I am ready to share information.
    With respect, Nikolai.
    I am looking for a person, or even an organization, who will decide to responsibly continue to decipher the Voynich manuscript. I would be grateful if you would let me know.

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