![]() ![]() On top of that, the text itself is likely to have been scrambled by an unknown code. And no author’s name, of course.Ī lot has been written about the Voynich manuscript, and the Canadian essay at translation is only one attempt of a quite long list. “ The handwritten, 240-page screed, now housed in Yale University’s Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, is written from left to right in an unknown language. The location is unknown, too, but experts believe Northern Italy as the most likely place of origin. Nobody knows exactly when it has been written, but the carbon-dating system dated it about the early 15th century (1404–1438). Not a lot is known about it, either. The manuscript (the name comes from the last owner who purchased it in 1912) is an illustrated codex hand-written, in a cheap vellum that makes it the Renaissance equivalent of a paperback. What’s the hype? Well, the Voynich manuscript is the one often defined “the most cryptic and mysterious book ever written” and, even now, nobody understands the language of it. One of the most interesting news of the last days is the claim, by the University of Alberta, that researchers have used one AI to decode sections of this world-famous manuscript. Books, history, mystery, The Voynich manuscript ![]()
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