The Mysterious Voynich Manuscript

By Queuebot in Book & Literature, Paranormal on Jul 7, 2009 at 2:03 am

The Voynich Manuscript has been a thusfar untranslated tome filled with an unknown script, written by an unknown author, in some unknown language. Over the years, countless numberss of professional and amateur cryptographers have tested their mettle against this mysterious book and failed.

So what secrets does the Voynich Manuscript contain? What do the strange words and strange illustrations depict? Is it just some elaborate hoax?

The Voynich Manuscript is considered to be ‘The Most Mysterious Manuscript in the World’. To this day this medieval artifact resists all efforts at translation.
It is either an ingenious hoax or an unbreakable cipher.

The manuscript is named after its discoverer, the American antique book dealer and collector, Wilfrid M. Voynich, who discovered it in 1912, amongst a collection of ancient manuscripts kept in villa Mondragone in Frascati, near Rome, which had been by then turned into a Jesuit College (closed in 1953).

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  1. GQ
    Jul 7th, 2009 at 5:15 am

    Cool, I’ve never heard of this before.

  2. Edward
    Jul 7th, 2009 at 10:18 am

    The creator was schizophrenic. The book is best considered a piece of art.

  3. Joseph Francis
    Jul 7th, 2009 at 1:10 pm

    I’ve always liked that thing. I just used its font recently around the edge of this knife-thrower’s target

    http://www.digitalartform.com/archives/2009/03/nothing_is_real.html

    just to make the image more mysterious-looking

  4. Bat21
    Jul 7th, 2009 at 2:10 pm

    There is a great article at Wired about why the Voynich is most likely a hoax. http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.09/rugg.html

  5. Wes
    Jul 7th, 2009 at 4:44 pm

    Is this article written in some unknown language?

    “thusfar untranslated … countless numberss …”

  6. ted
    Jul 7th, 2009 at 7:04 pm

    In other words, gibberish.

  7. JeramieH
    Jul 7th, 2009 at 8:45 pm

    You only have to keep the royals confused long enough to pocket the gold and disappear into the world. Easy payday.

  8. Gauldar
    Jul 8th, 2009 at 9:02 am

    CTHULHU FHTAGN!

  9. Scooter
    Jul 9th, 2009 at 3:25 pm

    UMKC’s miller nichols library has a notebook by Raymond Scott that is full of weird coded pages. I’d love for some code expert to come look at it.

  10. Joseph Francis
    Jul 15th, 2009 at 3:32 pm

    The font, by the way, used by people who write about and try to analyze this document, is called EVA Hand 1

  11. Jody Maat
    Jul 29th, 2009 at 3:15 pm

    www,voynich.nl still growing……….


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