The Mysterious Book NO ONE Can Read: Ancient Voynich Manuscript
- Why & How
- 18 sept. 2020
- 2 min de lecture
The Voynich manuscript one of the world's most mysterious illustrated books, a 600-year-old manuscript written by an unknown author in an unknown coded language that no one, not even the best crypto graphers, has managed to crack .

The name comes from A book collector, Wilfrid Voynich who bought the medieval manuscript from the Jesuit College in Italy in 1912. in 1969 The book was donated to Yale University where experts continued to puzzle over it for more than a centry .

By current estimates, the book originally had 272 pages in 17 quires of 16 pages each. About 240 volum 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.

Based on the subject matter of the drawings, the contents of the manuscript fall into six sections:
1) botanicals containing drawings of 113 unidentified plant species .
2) astronomical and astrological drawings including astral charts with radiating circles, suns and moons, Zodiac symbols such as fish (Pisces), a bull (Taurus), and an archer (Sagittarius), nude females emerging from pipes or chimneys, and courtly figures .
3) a biological section containing a myriad of drawings of miniature female nudes, most with swelled abdomens, immersed or wading in fluids and oddly interacting with interconnecting tubes and capsules;
4) an elaborate array of nine cosmological medallions, many drawn across several folded folios and depicting possible geographical forms.
5) pharmaceutical drawings of over 100 different species of herbs and roots portrayed with jars or vessels in red, blue, or green.
6) continuous pages of text, possibly recipes, with a star-like flowers marking each entry in the margins.

Many theories have been advanced as to the nature of the Voynich manuscript "language".
The first is that is writen in cyphewhich is r a secret code deliberatly designed to hide a secret meaning.
The second is that the document is a hoax written in gibberish to make money off a gullible buyer some speclate the author was medieval con man others says that it was voynich himself.
The third theory is that the mansuscript is written in an actual language butt in a unkown script.
Now a British academic has claimed the manuscript is a type of therapeutic reference book composed by nuns for Maria of Castile, queen of Aragon, in a lost language known as proto-Romance.
In a peer-reviewed paper published in the journal Romance Studies, Gerard Cheshire, a research associate at the University of Bristol, argues the manuscript is “a compendium of information on herbal remedies, therapeutic bathing and astrological readings” focusing on female physical and mental health, reproduction and parenting .The university has deleted its article about the research, saying concerns had been raised about the validity of this research from academics in the fields of linguistics and medieval studies .
But if we can crack the code, what might we find ?
A bunch of nonsense ? or a lost knowledge of forgontten culture ? what do you think it might be ?
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