The Voynich Manuscript
by Raymond Clemens, Deborah Harkness · first published 2016
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The Voynich manuscript is an illustrated codex hand-written in an unknown writing system.
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If you are looking to get this as a Christmas gift, note that there are actually two versions of the Voynich Manuscript being published this year. The one mentioned here is a photographic reproduction done by the Yale Press, and is available from major sellers like Amazon for a reasonable price: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0300217234…
on “Facsimile of the Voynich Manuscript Now Available to Citizen Cryptographers” ↗…translate this based on the author's hypotheses, but there has been a substantial community around trying to do just that for a long time. FWIW The NSA appears to have published a book around 1978, The Voynich Manuscript: An Elegant Enigma [1], and a couple of the things from this article jump out at me after having read that book that raise red flags about the article's interpretation. The idea that there were multiple…
on “Voynich manuscript: the solution?” ↗