This book is divided into three sections: two introductions and the manuscript itself.The Voynich Manuscript. I've been aware of the Voynich Manuscript for about a decade and how often do you get to look at an undecipherable Renaissance era tome? The introduction traces the Voynich manuscripts history from its discovery to modern day and hypothesizes The Voynich Manuscript is a book from the 15th century, written in a language no one can identify, let alone read. When this popped up on Netgalley, I had to give it a go. This book is divided into three sections: two introductions and the manuscript itself. When I laid out my copy and turned it through 360 degrees, I noticed some interesting perspective properties.The Voynich Manuscript is a book from the 15th century, written in a language no one can identify, let alone read. The Voynich manuscript has been digitized by the Beinecke library, and this allowed me, at maximum magnification, to take a patchwork pencil tracing of the entire sequence of nine spheres.
The illustrations are either implausible or bizarre, filled with nonexistent plants and astrological charts.When this popped up on Netgalley, I had to give it a go. The one commonality of all of it, as analyzed by The Paris Review, is that it is utterly incomprehensible, both in text and images. What is special about it The script employed is utterly unknown and therefore illegible.The Voynich Manuscript contains illustrations, charts, and lots of text.
There are some sections that look botanical, some medical, some astronomical, and some featuring naked women. Is it a scientist's enciphered journal or just meaningless gibberish?I can see how people would arrive at either interpretation. See more ideas about voynich manuscript, manuscript, illuminated manuscript.The introduction traces the Voynich manuscripts history from its discovery to modern day and hypothesizes its origins.
Three out of five stars.moreThe Voynich Manuscript is a thrilling roller-coaster ride through the lives and loves of Jeb and Pants, two teenage boys in the 15th century struggling to understand the word as seen through a microscope with the assistance of seven comedy nymphs. I wouldn't mind having a physical version on my coffee table to flip through every now and again. It's an interesting curiosity. The rest looks like someone's drawings and the kind of text you see when you try to read a book in your dreams. Maybe it's in a language older than mankind and its deciphering will wake Cthulhu from his dead and dreaming slumber on the floor of the Pacific.The first section makes for somewhat interesting reading, if a little dry.
In their plight, they turn to the only adult who understands them - Roger Bacon, who becomes a mentor figure for their youthful adventures until he is gradually expunged from existence by people who don't understand that Francis Bacon is an entirely different person.Will the boys discover the fundamental building blocks of creation? Or will they be distracted by puberty and the potent force of naked girls in a pond? YOU DECIDE!*I purchased the Voynich Manuscript earlier this year, but it's shrink-wrap remained unopened until a few days ago. There is a darker underlying theme of corporate greed and identity theft as they struggle against alien lizard Nazis who want to suppress their discoveries. There is a dar The Voynich Manuscript is a thrilling roller-coaster ride through the lives and loves of Jeb and Pants, two teenage boys in the 15th century struggling to understand the word as seen through a microscope with the assistance of seven comedy nymphs.Presented in a choose-your-own-adventure format, the story of Jeb and Pants is touching and filled with fraternal warmth, with the older, wiser twin Jeb caring deeply for his seconds-younger brother who was dropped on his head as a child.
Don't ask me why this was - maybe I had an inner wish to keep the book in pristine co I purchased the Voynich Manuscript earlier this year, but it's shrink-wrap remained unopened until a few days ago. Holding the book in my hands, I was still somewhat reluctant to remove the shrink-wrap. Reading about the manuscript in this novel spurred me on to 'read' it. In this novel, Harkness incorporates the Voynich Manuscript into the storyline.
Don't ask me why this was - maybe I had an inner wish to keep the book in pristine condition, or perhaps I didn't want to 'read' it until someone had deciphered all the gobbledegook text. Holding the book in my hands, I was still somewhat reluctant to remove the shrink-wrap. Reading about the manuscript in this novel spurred me on to 'read' it. In this novel, Harkness incorporates the Voynich Manuscript into the storyline.
The text could be ciphers, codes, shorthand, stenography, natural language etc etc. There are many hypotheses as to what the 'language' actually is. The manuscript is known there as Beinecke MS 408, but most people tend to still call it the Voynich Manuscript.Over the centuries many people have tried to decipher the gobbledegook text, but as yet no one has succeeded. In 1969, having been unable to sell the manuscript, Kraus decided to donate it to Yale University's Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. Following Ethel Voynich's (Wilfrid's wife) death in 1960, the manuscript was eventually sold to Hans Peter Kraus. The World's Most Mysterious ManuscriptWilfrid Michael Voynich (1865 - 1930), a book dealer, obtained the manuscript in 1912 and the Voynich Manuscript is named after him.
Maybe we will never know who the author was. Many people have and are still talking about it and scratching their heads over the manuscript trying to work out the books true meaning.Some believe that the author of the manuscript is Roger Bacon (1214 - 1294) and Voynich himself thought that Albertus Magnus (1200 - 1280), but he was unable to prove this. Well if the manuscript was produced for a 'laugh', then the author has certainly succeeded in the objective.
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However, until full provenance is established, I guess this can not be ruled out. Thus, is the signature genuine, or perhaps did Voynich or another owner add the signature to the manuscript to help with the provenance?'The sewing style and composition of the supports and thread also are consistent with those for a book bound in the Gothic period.' The Gothic period lasted from the 12th century until the 16th century, so I guess this adds corroboration to the carbon dating of the paper to the 15th century.From reading the essays etc., in the book it would appear that as yet, the examinations and analyses have not brought forth any evidence to suggest that the manuscript was forged in the 19th century. Tepenecz 'was imperial chemist to Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf ll of Prague, in whose collection the manuscript was known to have been.' However, this signature does not match Tepenecz's signature on a document that was found in 2003. Using UV induced visible fluorescence imaging enabled the signature of Jacobi a Tepenecz to be enhanced, thereby further assigning provenance to the manuscript. Rare documents and paintings etc., require a full provenance before true authentication can be established. Radiocarbon dating has been able to determine'.95 per cent probability that the Voynich Manuscript is a mediaeval document.'However, given the forgeries of the Dead Sea Scrolls, these suggest that whether using only carbon dating is probably an insufficient analysis on it's own.Multispectral imaging is a tool that is used to 'characterize and differentiate inks and printing materials.' Looking at inks and pigments can help to determine the age of a document etc.
In the manuscript the drawings are very crude and in some ways childlike, or maybe drawn by someone with very little artistic skill. I've seen a few other 'words' that you think to yourself yes that is what it says, but what use is one word on an entire page if you've no idea what all the other 'words' are.When looking at the drawings or artwork, I compare them in my mind's eye to other photos that I have seen of mediaeval books. To my eyes, one word looks like 'sand', but then as I look through the pages I guess that I'm trying to adapt the gobbledegook to the English language lol. A shame that computer technology of today is as yet unable to help with the deciphering of the gobbledegook.Looking at the text it is clear that some 'words' appear to be duplicated on the same page and on other pages.
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