![]() ![]() We will crudely mimic some earlier results, and hopefully add our own confusion to the roiling mass of current research into the Voynich Manuscript. The manuscript has been subjected to almost fifty years of furtive attempts by cryptographers, including the US National Security Agency and a menagerie of others from the distinguished to the deranged. In this short series of posts we will subject the Voynich Manuscript to a range of text analysis techniques, delving into its structure, gain horrific insight into its composition, and skeptically assessing its credibility. ![]() The two-hundred or so folios of the manuscript, while beautifully illuminated, present a sadly limited corpus of text for the purposes of traditional analysis. The manuscript has resisted all attempts at interpretation by cryptographers, historians, and linguists.įrom a linguistic and cryptographic perspective, this lack of success in interpretation is not surprising. Written almost entirely in an unknown script, barring a small number of words apparently in Latin and High German, the manuscript is compellingly illustrated with depictions of plants, herbs, human figures, astronomical and astrological symbols. It now resides in Yale’s Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library with the designation MS 408. The book passed through a number of other hands before being donated to Yale University by the noted rare book dealer Hans P. Following several fruitless years of attempts to decipher the manusript and discover its origin, or to interest others in it, Wilfrid Voynich died. The book’s most recent history involves its purchase in 1912 by Wilfrid Voynich, a rare book dealer, from a sale of manuscripts by the Society of Jesus at the Villa Mondragone, Frascati. The Voynich Manuscript is one of the most well-known and studied volumes of occult knowledge. While the world abounds with strange phenomena ripe for analysis in their raw state, there is a peculiar pleasure in scrutinising arcane information curated and obscured by the human mind.
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