THE VOYNICH MANUSCRIPT: Full color enhanced reproduction of the original

The Voynich Manuscript is an unique curiosity in the world of books. Written around the 14th century, it is an extraordinary piece of work on vellum – the animal skin used instead of paper at that time. It is handwritten and with hundreds of drawings of plants, animal, constellations and… women. The manuscript is named after Wilfrid Voynich, a Polish book dealer who purchased it in 1912.In 1969, the Voynich manuscript was donated by Hans P. Kraus to Yale University’s Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, where it remains.There are a lot of theories about the language or the code of the script which is unreadable and impossible to transfer in any known language. The Manuscript is called “the unsolved mystery”. Was it written in code or a language for which we have not knowledge? Examiners, researchers, historians and linguists continue to be baffled and cannot give any logical explanation – or a readable text. The latest theory is that the Manuscript is written in shorthand Latin for use by a doctor, a pharmacist or an alchemist.Section 1 of the book is covering 130 pages, and contains detailed drawings of 113 plants and flowers that nobody has been able to identify. Section 2 is 26 pages of Astrological drawings; lots of circular and concentric diagrams, and some signs of the zodiac. The third section is called the Biological section and contains mainly drawings of nude women bathing in intricately plumbed pools. Section 4 is the Cosmological section, with circular diagrams of some cosmic nature. The fifth section is Pharmaceutical, with over 100 drawings of herbs, roots, powders, tinctures, and potions of undecipherable contents or use. The last section, called Stars, 23 solid pages of mysterious text, each paragraph marked with a star. And the theories multiply as the years pass by and no decoding is found…According to Wikipedia on May 2021 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voynich_manuscript) Read more