The Voynich Manuscript dates back no less than to the seventeenth century.However it is possible that they are much older than that. It is just about 240 pages long and filled with hand-written text and drawn images portray plants, astrological illustrations, and undressed women. These images are bizarre, but greatly stranger is the text itself, since the Voynich Manuscript is written utterly in strange and unknown alphabet that has challenged all efforts at translation.
The Voynich Manuscript primarily came into sight in 1912, when Wilfrid M. Voynich a modern scholar got interested in its strangely hand-written text and illustrations when he discovered it in the library of Villa Mondragone, a Jesuit college in Frascati, Italy. He acquired the Voynich Manuscript and brought it with him back to America. The Manuscript was named after this scholar after the discovery.
The history of the manuscript before Voynich discovered it is indistinct; however a letter place in between the pages of manuscript, the writing was not clear on the letter but it was addressed to Athanasius Kircher from Johannes Marcus Marci dated 1666. According to Marci the Voynich Manuscript was once owned by Emperor Rudolf II.
Emperor Rudolf II thought that in between 1214 and 1294 manuscript was written by English priest Roger Bacon. However Marci send the manuscript to Kircher, with hope that he might be able to translate the manuscript, but was unable to do so. Since then many have tried to translate Voynich Manuscript but no one has succeeded.
The first person who tried to translate the manuscript was William Romaine Newbold in 1919, then in 1943 Joseph Martin Feely and in 1970 Robert Brumbaugh but their efforts to translate manuscript were proven unsuccessful.
To this day the Voynich manuscript defied all efforts at translation. It is either an inventive practical joke or an unbreakable secret message.
Voynich Manuscript
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