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The Voynich Manuscript

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awGN5NApDy4
https://archive.org/details/TheVoynichManuscript/

‘An #illustrated #codex #hand-written in an otherwise #unknown #writing #system. The #parchment on which it is written has been #carbon-dated to the early #15th #century (1404-1438).

The #manuscript currently consists of around 240 pages. Some pages are foldable sheets of varying size. Most of the pages have fantastical #illustrations or #diagrams, some #crudely #colored, with sections of the manuscript showing #people, #fictitious #plants, #astrological #symbols, etc. The #text is written from left to right.

The #mystery of its #meaning and #origin has excited the popular #imagination, making it the subject of #study and #speculation.

#thevoynichmanuscript #voynich #documentary #code #history #document #language #translation #art #book #images #drawings #botanicals #herbals #cypher #cryptography #anonymous