University of Bristol research associate Dr. Kraus to Yale University’s Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, where it is catalogued under call number MS 408. In 1969, the Voynich manuscript was donated by book dealer Hans P. Extract from the Voynich Manuscript, image courtesy Yale University
Illustrations in the manuscript seem to show astronomical images, diagrams of plumbing systems and an erupting volcano which may have prompted a rescue mission and the drawing of the map. It was theorised to be the work of English astronomer Roger Bacon, of Leonardo da Vinci, a 16th century hoax, or (by ‘alien astronaut’ theorist Erich von Däniken) the lost works of the prophet Enoch. AI scientists at the University of Alberta concluded it was Hebrew, while botanists studying the plant illustrations suggested an origin in Mexico. Illustrated with botanical, geographical and mystical images, it was thought to be written in code, but no analysis seemed to be able to reveal the original language. The manuscript is small, seven by ten inches, but thick, nearly 235 pages. The meaning of the manuscript, carbon dated to the 1400s and discovered in an Italian monastery in 1912 by book dealer Wilfred Voynich, has eluded scholars for decades. An academic from the University of Bristol claims to have succeeded where cryptographers, linguists and programmers have failed, by decoding the meaning of the ‘world’s most mysterious text’, the Voynich Manuscript.
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