#the voynich manuscript

[weezardthewizard]

My take on the Voynich Manuscript:

It was written by someone who was literate (obviously), artistically skilled, and knowledgeable in a wide range of subjects. Like a proto-Galileo.

It was written partially in abbreviated Latin. Up until very recently, anyone with a Western formal education worth its salt knew Latin.

The author was extremely bright and had a formal Western education at the very least. Likely came from a wealthy family and/or had a rich benefactor. They were important enough that their name and title are possibly still written down somewhere.

It was written partially in Old (High?) German, some 300 years after the language had evolved into Middle High German. Correct me if I'm wrong. That's the equivalent of someone today being fluent in Early Modern (Shakespearen) English. Certainly not impossible, but not something a layman would easily understand.

The author has spent an extensive amount of time studying old texts. Shit that's hard to get your hands on. This person was a scholar that had access to an impressive library.

The Old German/Latin abrv. mishmash is written out phonetically using a version of the old Turkic alphabet. That's kind of vague as hell and covers a huge timespan. Looks like Manichaean script to me, but I'm sure as shit no historical linguist. If anyone knows what it is, that could help us narrow down the timeframe.

The mid-east was bangin around this era. It was THE hot spot for discovery and innovation for pretty much anything.

The author was a polyglot who knew at least two archaic writing systems. They were either well-traveled or had sweet sweet neworking connections to the cool acedemics out east. Specifically: access to their rare books.

The book is coded, presumably to keep the information out of the hands of anyone without the cipher. This makes me think occult, so I'm inclined to believe the alchemist angle. A court alchemist would have access to the crown's deep pockets and private libraries. The coding would conceal any work a benefactor might find scandalous or heretical.

We have a rough timeframe. Finding the author is now a process of eliminating people who wouldn't have access to the knowledge and resources necessary to code the book. So, how many kingdoms in Europe had court alchemists, global connections, and the money to throw around for research? How many of those alchemists studied these subjects?

#mystery files #it might also be worth searching the illustrations for insignias of either the benefactor or occultist group the author belonged to #the voynich manuscript #watcher #watcher entertainment #linguistics #historical linguistics

[stardynamite]

NOBODY IS GONNA ANSWER THIS BUT I’LL ASK ANYWAY

IS THIS FOR REAL??? DID THAT ACTUALLY HAPPEN??? WHAT THE HELL

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[theresalwaysatwistattheend]

My boy, The Professor making a cameo. 😭

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[lithiumseven]

NOT SHANE MADEJ TALKING ABOUT THE VOYNICH MANUSCRIPT

ALL MY DREAMS ARE ALIVE

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[lilithsaintcrow]

"By analysing the Voynich illustrations through this lens, we propose the Rosettes – the manuscript’s largest and most elaborate illustration – represents a late-medieval understanding of sex and conception."

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[mochatheangelkiller]

I want to see Spencer Reid try to decipher the Voynich Manuscript

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[schibborasso]

... working on the voynich-page-project-collages for zines artfusion ... ( the original voynich manuscript is a document that is notable for its strange text, that to date hasn‘t been decrypted. theories range from a secret language or code to an old sort of joke or hoax. ) https://zine.artfusion.de/

#collages #zine artfusion #the voynich manuscript

[strangeandmysteriouspast]

The Mysterious Book that is written in an alien language : The voynich manuscript

The Voynich manuscript is an illustrated codex hand-written in an otherwise unknown writing system or script with. Very little use of Latin, referred to as 'Voynichese'. The vellum on which it is written has been carbon-dated to the early 15th century (1404–1438), and stylistic analysis indicates it may have been composed in Italy during the Italian Renaissance. The origins, authorship, and purpose of the manuscript are debated. Various hypotheses have been suggested, including that it is an otherwise unrecorded script for a natural language or constructed language; an unread code, cypher, or other form of cryptography; or simply a meaningless hoax.

It's contents are herbal, astronomical, balneological, cosmological and pharmaceutical sections + section with recipes

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[geezerwench]

Voynich Manuscript Decoded | The Mysterious Book Finally Solved?

#youtube #The Voynich Manuscript #Voynich Manuscript

[joandelahaye]

Strange Manuscripts and Deadly Demons

Strange Manuscripts and Deadly Demons

Hello, my Freaky Darlings! It’s been fucking cold in South Africa this week. It’s actually snowed in places. So I’ve been snuggled up with my cats, Midnight and Mogwai, trying to keep warm. They make great little heaters.   I love mysteries, and in this week’s video, I’m looking into a fascinating and mysterious book called The Voynich Manuscript. As mentioned in the video, if you would like to…

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[nobrashfestivity]

Voynich Manuscript

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[catboy-bride]

(trips over my priestly robes and falls down a flight of stairs)

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[slaviclore]

there's this one historical power couple whose dynamic i'm just obsessed with, both born in the mid 1800s. michał wojnicz (anglicized wilfrid voynich) was a polish book dealer who discovered what's today called the voynich manuscript, a mysterious book made of parchment carbon-dated to the early 1400s, full of fantastical illustrations and written in a (possibly coded) language that to this day with all the tech we have is still unintelligible to us.

michał was married to ethel boole, an irish novelist and pianist who was the first person to translate fryderyk chopin's correspondence from polish to english (published under e.l. voynich). since i study chopin documents as a hobby, i can only imagine being the first person to try to put those into english with little historical research to go on, and polish wasn't her native language... it must've been super difficult, and she couldn't even say shit because there was poor michał sitting in the other corner pulling his hair out over a LITERALLY indecipherable manuscript.

ethel: gosh this passage is so odd, i don't know if --

michał: WHAT DID U SAY

#also they were both anti tsarist revolutionaries #the voynichs #history #literature #chopin #voynich manuscript

[thebeautifulbook]

CIPHER MANUSCRIPT [aka VOYNICH MANUSCRIPT] by Roger Bacon[?] (Central Europe, c.1401-1599) 18th -19th century binding.

‘Scientific or magical text in an unidentified language, in cipher, apparently based on Roman minuscule characters; the text is believed by some scholars to be the work of Roger Bacon since the themes as the illustrations seem to represent topics know to have interested Bacon…. A history of the numerous attempts to decipher the manuscript can be found in a volume edited by R.S Brumbaugh THE MOST MYSTERIOUS MANUSCRIPT: The Voynich “Roger Bacon” Cipher Manuscript (Carbondale, IL, 1978). Although several scholars have claimed decipherments of the manuscript, for the most part the text remains an unsolved puzzle.’ — from an abstract by the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale

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[crustaceousism]

Anyone else just start thinking about the Voynich Manuscript sometimes

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[nat-20s]

#love the voynich manuscript #my personal theory is someone got Weird with it