This gained a lot of press at the time, though it was soon trashed by medieval scholars.Īs of 2018, the Voynich Manuscript is still a mystery.In a BBC documentary series earlier this year called “Can’t Get You Out of My Head: An Emotional History of the Modern World,” the eccentric British filmmaker Adam Curtis mounted a pastiche of images meant to show that coercive hidden forces underlay contemporary life.
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In 2017, a TV writer named Nicholas Gibbs, claimed the book was written in abbreviated Latin and that it was a mostly plagiarized guide women’s health.
Because of what looks like pharmacological recipes, it’s likely that the book was a medieval medical textbook. However, Bacon died over 100 years before the manuscript was created, so it’s possible that the book was a 15 th Century hoax in an effort to sell a Bacon forgery.īecause we have been unable to decipher the text, and because the images are of fantastical creatures and plants, the purpose of this manuscript-if it’s not a hoax-is unclear. Over the years, there seems to have been efforts to tie authorship of this manuscript to English friar and polymath Roger Bacon. The current scientific consensus seems to be that Voynich did not create this manuscript, for the vellum all came from the same source and its unlikely that Voynich could have come across over a hundred sheets of blank, 15 th Century vellum stock. The cover seems to have been added later, though still hundreds of years before Voynich owned the book. The vellum (paper) has been dated to between 14. Radiocarbon dating has been done on all aspects of the book to make sure it wasn’t some elaborate hoax by Mr. In fact, it’s unclear if the book is encrypted or a code, if it’s some sort of medieval shorthand, or if it’s a genuine, unknown language. Though many have tried, no one has proven to have decrypted the text. It appears to be a scientific or medical work from the middle ages, broken into several sections, including an herbal section, an astronomical section, a cosmological section, a seemingly fantasy-inspired “biological” section, what seems like a pharmaceutical section, and a recipe section.Īlmost immediately after its introduction, the book came under scrutiny of the world’s leading cryptographers, including British and American codebreakers from World War II. The book has no title, nor any information about its author, though it does seem to have a line of owners dating all the way back to Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II (1576–1612). The script, which seems to be written from right to left, is of unknown origin. The book appeared to have been written entirely in cipher, and it featured detailed drawings of plants and beasts that could have come out of a D&D manual. In 1915, a Polish revolutionary and book dealer named Wilfrid Voynich introduced the world to a book he claimed to have bought in Northern Italy a few years earlier. We’re talking about the Voynich Manuscript. But there is one mysterious book-that may or may not be a medieval women’s health manual-that piques our interest because it has vexed experts for 600 years. OK, wait, that last one sounds a little creepy. At Covert Concepts, we love secret rooms and passageways, mysteries, codes, conspiracies, and women’s health manuals.
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