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Take home the mysterious Voynich Manuscript and decode it yourself.

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Scholars and code-breakers have tried unsuccessfully for decades to decipher the Beinecke Library’s Voynich Manuscript (above). Want to give it a shot? In November, Yale University Press released a facsimile edition (below) of the 234-page medieval manuscript, complete with the elaborate foldouts, mysterious symbols, and enigmatic illustrations of the original. Images of the manuscript, which is written in an unknown language, have been available on the Beinecke’s website for several years. But curator Raymond Clemens says it’s not the same as experiencing it physically. “We’re hoping the facsimile will give people a sense of the size of the book and the way its structures fit together,” says Clemens. “This will be the next best thing to actually sitting down with the manuscript at the library.”

2 comments

  • Giuseppe BIANCHI
    Giuseppe BIANCHI, 3:00am December 20 2016 | Ico flag Flag as inappropriate

    NEW VIDEO!!! VOYNICH LETTERS CONTAINER SYSTEM & STENCILS WORKING

    here it is!

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yr9HM5Pi3wM

    Maybe now you also have understood how Voynich was written...

    Now all my video have ENGLISH SUBTITLES, SOTTOTITOLI IN ITALIANO, SUBTÍTULOS EN ESPAÑOL!:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4E3BgWiqtk
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RF8LVn4HVh4

    I did my bit, now you have to do your's

  • josef zlatoděj prof.
    josef zlatoděj prof., 10:32am December 20 2016 | Ico flag Flag as inappropriate

    Dear Yale.
    Voynich manuscript is written and encrypted in old Czech language.
    The manuscript is encrypted - cabalistic numerological system gematria. Where each letter has a numeric value.

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