Thursday 3 October 2013

Voynich manuscript - the mistery

Today I found this very intriguing story about a book written in unreadable language and unknown alphabet from unknown author and I start searching more information. Is this the philosopher stone, or just a joke between alchemists?


From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"The Voynich manuscript is an illustrated codex hand-written in an unknown writing system. The book has been carbon-dated to the early 15th century (1404–1438), and may have been composed in Northern Italy during the Italian Renaissance.The manuscript is named after Wilfrid Voynich, a book dealer who purchased it in 1912.
The pages of the codex are vellum. Some of the pages are missing, but about 240 remain. The text is written from left to right, and most of the pages have illustrations or diagrams. Many people have speculated that the writing might be nonsense. However, in 2013, Marcelo Montemurro of the University of Manchester and Damian Zanette of the Bariloche Atomic Centre published a paper documenting their identification of a semantic pattern in the writing; this suggests that the Voynich manuscript is a cipher text with a message.


The Voynich manuscript has been studied by many professional and amateur cryptographers, including American and British code-breakers from both World War I and World War II. No one has yet succeeded in deciphering the text, and it has become a famous case in the history of cryptography. The mystery of the meaning and origin of the manuscript has excited the popular imagination, making the manuscript the subject of novels and speculation. None of the many hypotheses proposed over the last hundred years has yet been independently verified."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voynich_manuscript

Paintings in the manuscript






Based on the subject matter of the drawings, the contents of the manuscript falls into six sections: 
1) botanicals containing drawings of 113 unidentified plant species; 
2) astronomical and astrological drawings including astral charts with radiating circles, suns and moons, Zodiac symbols such as fish (Pisces), a bull (Taurus), and an archer (Sagittarius), nude females emerging from pipes or chimneys, and courtly figures; 
3) a biological section containing a myriad of drawings of miniature female nudes, most with swelled abdomens, immersed or wading in fluids and oddly interacting with interconnecting tubes and capsules; 
4) an elaborate array of nine cosmological medallions, many drawn across several folded folios and depicting possible geographical forms; 
5) pharmaceutical drawings of over 100 different species of medicinal herbs and roots portrayed with jars or vessels in red, blue, or green, and 
6) continuous pages of text, possibly recipes, with star-like flowers marking each entry in the margins.
http://beinecke.library.yale.edu/collections/highlights/voynich-manuscript










The bathing women and the strange water system









Is it a code?

"There are about 25 examinations of the Voynich manuscript and most of the results show the text has similarities with natural language. This new examination is one more of this kind," says Klaus Schmeh, a cryptographer









So we have several options, it could be amazing nonsense work or the key of immortality or even the angel`s language. How do you think?

Here you can see all the pages of the manuscript:

1 comment:

hände hoch! said...

the book was written in a time when smoking pipes with herbals,mushrooms and everything that grows on mother earth was the thing to do.some women(gypsie,witches)like to smoke the pipe a lot.they said it is the best way to find out how herbals work and what is the best pipe to smoke them.they show people the future in the smoke.also they make medicine out of herbs because they now everything about plants.but the church don´t liked that.because the church started to imported tobacco.to make money. so the people should buy and smoke the tobacco and stopp smoking the free home growing herbals(perhaps the church burned everything down what was green and good to smoke-could be a reason why the plants in the book today don´t exist) the church killed woman, witches and gypsies.so for me the writing is a secret gypsie style.to keep the old knowing and tradition for the next generations.in a way the church never understand.the gypsies flying under the radar and nobody knows realy something about them.my grandfather was an irish/celtic gypsie and he could heal your skin if it were burned and eas the pain just by spelling some words on it.sorry for my bad english.

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