Plants occupy the pages, then appear diagrams, stars and strange bath scenes. Voynich’s manuscript gives the impression of explaining something very carefully. Yet he lacks the most essential access for us: a recognized reading of his writing.
The volume is kept at Yale's Beinecke Library. Its name comes from the bookseller Wilfrid Voynich, who bought it in 1912 from a Jesuit community in Italy. The materials examined are compatible with an ancient origin, but neither the images nor the material analysis automatically provide the language and meaning of the text. The author remains unknown.
Solutions are regularly announced. None, according to Yale’s presentation, constitute an accepted decryption to read the whole. It is not necessary to add a curse or an extraterrestrial message. The real mystery is that of a well-preserved object, abundantly illustrated and accessible to researchers, whose signs continue to resist a demonstrated reading.
What we know
Author and writing not identified; no decryption accepted asserted.
To go to the source
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