Voynich Manuscript: The Unreadable Medieval Book

Voynich Manuscript: The Unreadable Medieval Book

Have you come across this term "VOYNICH MANUSCRIPT"?

I recently did. 

" Voynich whaaat?" ?

Okay let me explain.

It is supposedly a Medieval book,  with unreadable weird characters it seems:/

Yeah ..

A language of which no other example is known to exist of. It is an alphabetic script, but of an alphabet variously reckoned to have from nineteen to twenty-eight letters, none of which bear any relationship to any English or European letter system. 

I was just wondering why don't me and you write a book with illegible characters as well. May be a thousand years down the line researchers would waste years and Dollars decoding it. (^_^)

Okay i don't know why i just said that.Sorry for the rotten joke. :/

Now Moving on at the speed of light,

                  One of the unfolded pages from the book which appears to be Botany Related

The Voynich Manuscript was written on a material called Vellum it seems.

Are you wondering who is Voynich..

You can read more about him here: Wilfrid Michał Habdank-Wojnicz (That's his Real Name)

*Did you know Voynich was a convict, was imprisoned, and he escaped his way into the Europe from Russia?

(Did i just sound like i was gossiping?! > :|) 

Voynich later became a Book Dealer.

OK. But he didn't write the book. It's just named after him! (What for?!). Because they have no clue who the GREAT Author is.

We should let him have the credit of having the Book named after him because he was the first person to come across this Book. And they just could not think of a better name.

Allright. Back to the Main topic.

                            

                              A three-page foldout from the manuscript which  looks astronomical

The Voynich manuscript is estimated to have been written around 600 years ago. What is most striking is not its strange drawings, that ,when placed alongside one another unravel to complete a larger picture like pieces of a puzzle, but that its contents remain a total mystery.

Professor Bax has been working on the manuscript for two years and uses the same approach that successfully translated Egyptian hieroglyphs alongside his knowledge of medieval texts and syntax of other languages, particularly Arabic. Some of the words decrypted include Taurus (the constellation) and Kantairon (a herb). Bax believes that the purpose of the manuscript is a treatise on Nature written in a language that originated in a “Near Eastern or Asian language”. By releasing his findings, he hopes to encourage other linguists to collaborate with him to decode the whole manuscript warning them that “it still won’t be easy”..

Take a tour of  some Voynich Manuscript Pictures Here .LATER.: Voynich Manuscript Pictures

        














  
The Left picture is from Voynich Manuscript & the right on is a modern illustration.

This picture shows the Milky Way Galaxy with superimposed mirror image of                  the "galaxy" from the Voynich Manuscript. The match is perfect.

*Did you know the book once belonged to Emperor Rudolf II (1552–1612), who paid 600 gold ducats (~2.07 kg gold) for it !? .

The other owners of the book were  Raphael Mnishovsky, Rudolf II, Gordon Rugg, Edward Kelley ,  John Dee.

Based on the subject matter of the drawings, the contents of the manuscript falls into six sections:

 1) Botanical work 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 swollen abdomen, 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 medicinal herbs and roots portrayed with jars or vessels in red, blue, or green.

 6) Continuous pages of  recipes, with star-like flowers marking each entry in the margins.

For a complete physical description and foliation, including missing leaves, see the Voynich catalog record.

*Did you know that Voynich Manuscript is believed to be the work of the Aliens by some researchers.

Of of the Episodes from the Voynich Manuscript.

Around two-thirds of the way into the aged vellum pages of the Voynich manuscript, you'll find a line drawing of a bath. One pipe leads into it, another pipe leads away. Inside the bath, knee-deep in some green liquid, squat 16 naked women. Over the page, more naked women stand in the openings of ornate horns, seemingly suspended by jets of water and using their hands to support pipes, or archways, or rainbows.

All around these pictures — above, below, to the left and right, sometimes in gaps where the pictures connect with each other — you'll find text. (That you can't read of course)

Why did i just explain that^ :'S

Anyways,Here is the picture.

*Did you know "Le Code Voynich"  was the first  facsimile edition of the Voynich Manuscript published in 2005. It was in French. Followed by several others.

Can you read French and planning to buy it? Go here: Le Code Voynich

The bizarre features of the Voynich manuscript text (such as the doubled and tripled words), the suspicious contents of its illustrations (such as the chimeric plants) and its lack of historical reference support the idea that the manuscript is a hoax. In other words,  no one is able to extract meaning from the book. :'/

Various hoax theories about the book have been proposed over time.

Here are two other pictures from the book,

          

Hey! btw, DID you know these?

*The Manuscript was found in 1912.

*They gave the Voynich Manuscript project 100 years. However, after 100 years and thousands of dollars, no one got the job done. And they gave up!

There is a lot more about This book that i could possibly write. But Bombarding with too much information wont work.

If you want to know more,

DO RESEARCH ABOUT THIS BOOK ONLINE WHEN YOU HAVE SOME FREE TIME.

There is a lot.

I Guess, almost everything we believe we know about the Voynich manuscript we'll never really know for sure. What do you think?

Do drop your comments below.

Mean while, if you want something more weird than the Voynich Manuscript,Try the Rohonc Codex. It's an interesting read about a system of graphics and writing that originated in Hungary in the early 1900's. It's really interesting if you like graphic design, stenciling, or graffiti art.

If you are too lazy to Google, click here: ROHONC CODEX

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Stay tuned until next time.Thanks for Reading.
-Mia