Many call the fifteenth-century codex, commonly known as the “Voynich Manuscript,” the
world’s most mysterious book.
Written in an unknown script by an unknown author, the manuscript has no clearer purpose
and making it one of the greatest unsolved riddles in literary history.
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Written in Central Europe at the end of the 15th century, named after antiquarian bookseller
Wilfrid Voynich, who purchased it in 1912.
Since 1969 it has been housed in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University.
Described as a magical or scientific text, nearly every page contains botanical, figurative,
and scientific drawings of a provincial but lively character, drawn in ink with vibrant
washes in various shades of green, brown, yellow, blue, and red.
Its pages are adorned with an array of fantastical illustrations .There are floating castles,
disembodied heads, flowers that bear no relation to anything you can find on Earth, strange
creatures that resemble jellyfish, and lots of naked women bathing in water.
The Voynich codex measures 23.5 × 16.2 cm and contains 102 heavily illustrated parchment
folios which is about 234 pages.
The manuscript is divided into six sections based on the illustrations : botany, astronomy
and astrology, biology, cosmology, pharmaceutical and Recipes
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)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 medicinal herbs and roots portrayed with jars or vessels in red, blue, or green
6) continuous pages of text, possibly recipes, with star-like flowers marking each entry
in the margins.
Though the images are more or less decipherable the text has proved otherwise.
Numerous scholars, linguists, cryptologists, and other intrigued parties have attempted
to decode the unknown script with little to no success.
It is not known where or exactly when the manuscript was created, radiocarbon dating
has assigned it to the early 15th century
The book came into Voynich’s hands in 1912, when he procured it from a Jesuit college
near Rome.The manuscript was purchased from Voynich’s estate in 1961 by a New York bookseller,
Hans P. Kraus, who donated it to the Bienecke Library in 1969 where it remains today.Among
the many people who tried to decipher the text were renowned World War II cryptologists
William and Elizebeth Friedman, art historian Erwin Panofsky, intelligence specialists,
and scholars of chemistry, law, mathematics, medieval philosophy, and other fields.
Some already suspected that Hebrew was the language behind the script, Others have claimed
the manuscript to be a forgery and the text itself a hoax
Till 2021, researchers have solved the title as THE AGRICULTURE OF THE NABEATEANS
and the author as IBN WAHSHIYYAH the Nabataean and deciphered
some of the texts and their meanings but still the research continues....
What do you think?
Is Voynich manuscript the dream journal of a 15th-century illustrator?
A bunch of nonsense?
Or the lost knowledge of a forgotten culture?
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