For now, he thinks the book is 'probably a treatise on nature, perhaps in a Near Eastern or Asian language.'īax has explained his ideas in a manuscript and in a YouTube video on his website.įollow Megan Gannon on Twitter and Google+. A recent statistical study published in the journal PLOS ONE found that ' Voynichese' adheres to linguistic rules.īax notes that the manuscript is still a long way from being understood, and that he is coming forward with what he's found thus far in the hopes that other linguists will work with him to crack the code. While some scholars have written it off as a Renaissance-era hoax full of nonsense text, others say the pattern of the letters and words suggest the book was written in a real language or at least an invented cipher. Much of the manuscript resembles herbal manuscripts of the time period, seeming to present illustrations and. It is named after the book dealer Wilfrid Voynich, who purchased it in 1912. Rudolph II of Germany purchased the book for 600 gold ducats. But no living person has ever, as far as we. The Voynich manuscript, also known as 'the world's most mysterious manuscript', is a work which dates to the early 15th century, possibly from northern Italy. The Voynich first appears in the historical record in the late 16th century, as Davis writes on her blog Manuscript Road Trip. We know, thanks to carbon dating, that it was put together in the early fifteenth century. Carbon dating proved that it dates back to the 15th century, and researchers believe it was written in Central Europe. The Voynich Manuscript is a special kind of original. The book's 250 vellum pages are filled with.

The Voynich manuscipt now sits in a rare books library at Yale University. A researcher claims he's decoded 10 possible words in the famously unreadable Voynich manuscript, which has eluded interpretation for a century.

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