![]() Held at Yale University’s Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library since 1969, the Voynich Manuscript (VM) remains one of the world’s most mysterious texts. You don’t know it yet, but you’re holding what will soon become known as “The Most Mysterious Manuscript in the World” (Hurych). Opening it to reveal its pages, you see elegant but unrecognizable writing surrounded by colourful yet rudimentary illuminations. You pull it out of the box and run your hands over it, smoothing the centuries-old parchment with your fingertips. Suddenly, your hand rests on a thickly-bound codex. ![]() Imagine this: you’re rifling through a box of unidentified documents – flipping past loose pages of sermons, financial records, and personal diaries. Cipher Manuscript, Folio 1r, courtesy of Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University LibraryĪ medieval codex with an unknown author and an indecipherable language and script – where did the Voynich Manuscript come from and what does it mean?
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