Inside the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University is the Voynich manuscript: a book that has come to be known as “the world’s most mysterious manuscript.” Since a team of scientists has recently determined the age of the Voynich (pronounced Voy-nitch) manuscript, we relish the opportunity to discuss this enigma as well as some wonderful words around cryptography and linguistics.
Consisting of 240 pages of detailed illustrations and a cipher (a method of secret writing using substitution or transposition of letters according to a key), the book has a unique and notorious quality. For decades, historians and scientists have studied its ancient pages but have been unable to decipher its text. Who wrote this manuscript and why? Is there a hidden message within the pages of this document?
A book dealer named Wilfrid M. Voynich discovered the manuscript outside of Rome in 1912, and it has been in the news because of the work of scientists at the University of Arizona. Using a technique called radiocarbon dating, the team of researchers concluded that the book was probably composed between 1404 and 1438 – earlier than previously thought. The detailed illustrations of specific dress, hairstyles and landscapes as well as the “letter-based cipher” theory help to identify the region of origin as European. The manuscript is written on vellum (animal skin); this enabled scientists to accurately date the manuscript.
The text within the manuscript consists of over 170,000 glyphs, some resembling Latin text. These pictographs or characters, written with one or two simple pen strokes, outline six sections: Herbal, Astronomical, Biological, Cosmological, Pharmaceutical and Recipes. Each section contains an illustration depicting the subject and within each section there seems to be an alphabet consisting of 20-30 distinct glyphs that repeat. However, there are about twenty-four isolated characters that occur only once or twice throughout the manuscript.
Many scientists and historians believe that the manuscript was meant to act as a pharmacopoeia – a handbook for early modern medicine. If this is true, perhaps once accurately deciphered, the manuscript will help navigate scientists toward uncharted medical territory.
Some theorize the text is idioglossia, a private language that only one or two people could ever decipher. The oddness of the characters suggests at the very least an argot, “a specialized idiomatic vocabulary peculiar to a particular class or group of people, devised for private communication.”
And who wrote the manuscript? Some theorists believe Voynich himself was the author. If that is the case, the manuscript is not only one of the greatest cons in literary history but a work of linguistic genius in its own right. Any theories of your own? Share them below.
Sounds like it’s related to Alchemy. Imagine the secrets it holds within it’s pages.
I wrote the manuscript. Now you have the answer. OK Ok, I didn`t write it. There is a theory that DaVinci wrote it.
It’s an alien cookbook titled: “To Serve Man”
My favorite theory is XKCD’s… it’s a fantasy RPG gaming manual. 
Given that Voynich discovered the manuscript in 1912 and radiocarbon dating concluded that the book was probably composed between 1404 and 1438 it would be rather difficult for Voynich to be the author… unless he a fair bit of spare time and 240 blank pieces of very old vellum lying around.
Never heard anything about this Voynich Manuscript, but the mystery is always interesting to follow! To me the idea of Idioglossia is another interesting stuff to learn more since sometimes me and my husband try to create our own ‘language’ just for fun..
Anyway, if the technology found the manuscript was composed between 1404-1438 and Mr. Voynich reveal the manuscripts in 1912, wouldn’t it be funny since the time he reveal the script and the composing time assumed are making about 400 years gap? Who lives that long? Unless the idea of Yoda-Starwars is really happening to human on this planet 
Anyway, wish there’ll be some other scientists and historian would appear with their enlightening knowledge to complete this valuable posting!
Never heard anything about this Voynich Manuscript, but the mystery is always interesting to follow! To me the idea of Idioglossia is another interesting stuff to learn more since my husband and I are sometimes create our own ‘language’ just for fun..
Anyway, if the technology found the manuscript was composed between 1404-1438 and Mr. Voynich reveal the manuscripts in 1912, wouldn’t it be funny since the time he reveal the script and the composing time assumed are making about 400 years gap? Who lives that long? Unless the idea of Yoda-Starwars is really happening to human on this planet
Anyway, wish there’ll be some other scientists and historian would appear with their enlightening knowledge to complete this valuable posting!
Sounds to me like this manuscript is a book of shadows.
I’m not sure I understand… They have the cipher, the “key” to decoding the mysterious text in the manuscript. So why no translation?
This is kinda cool-ish. Is that even a word? idk. I hope this gets figured out, it could unlock a whole new world in history and a cool thing to do. It seems very interesting!
check out piemarox on youtube while you are waiting for scientists to figure this out!
It is a Players Handbook to a long forgotten role playing game.
obscure images and indecipherable text. Once we find the core book to the system, all will be revealed 
If scientists have successfully radiocarbon dated the manuscript, why do some still stick to the theory that Voynich himself wrote it? Conspiracies just love company.
In any regard, it’s a fascinating relic.
PRETTY COOL, DEF, PEAKS THE CURIOUSITY, AND DEF GETS YOU WONDERING WTF IT MEANS, SIGNIFIES, IS IT CRYPTIC, YET WRITTEN IN A FASHION THAT PERHAPS IS INTERPRETABLE? WEIRD…
Oh my gosh! I so want to see this book! The puzzle of it must tie a cryptographers brain in knots. What a fabulous piece of history!
Well, it could be one of those mysterious things discovered. And if it is true, then I could also say that people from ancient times are really intelligent. Unlike people nowadays who rely much on computers.
cool, i would like to know what’s inside the manuscript
This is really interesting. I never new this exsisted
A Fried Bologna sandwich please. And a grape soda.
Interesting. I wonder what all the ignorant critics will say about this post from the dictionary people.
I’m assuming they’ve applied code breaking software to the piece right? That’s one thing that would be nice to know. Still, a good read. (The article not the Voynich.)
Possibly if you accurately copied the text and put the entirety on line I am sure someone would recognize the originality if nothing else! And perhaps even decode the writing. Even put it on line as a contest or whatever, in a more of a public fashion and would draw more recognition.
And solve the riddle!!
Where can I find this? I want to try my hand.
As a lover of language, I enjoy being enlightened by something like this that I have never heard of. But how about an alien race? It might be possible, but I suspect that it will be something akin to what the writer of this article has postulated or hypothesized. Savvy?
In the late 90’s Jodie Foster starred in a film called NELL. Her character, raised in the backwoods of North Carolina by an autistic mother, has her own language (idioglossia) and Liam Neeson and Natasha Richardson are speech scientists who spend the time of the film trying to crack her language and bring Nell into full contact with contemporary society. Take a look at Wikipedia for more detailed info.
FIRST!
Kidding, kidding…:)
How could Voynich have written it? Is he 600 yrs old? Or have the researchers not be able to verify the age of ink, only the vellum… in that case Voynich writing it would be feasible. I guess the theorists are suggesting he found blank vellum (was it bound?) and wrote this crazy language on it for recognition and acclaim?
Wicked! Wish I would’ve discovered it.
It is patently impossible that Voynich is the author. He would have to have planned to stymie Carbon-14 dating techniques which didn’t exist until some 30 years after he discovered the manuscript. I would suspect the cipher was an early means to retain proprietary knowledge by a small group. If deciphered, it will likely not so much lead us to uncharted medical territory as reflect medical wisdom that might have been advanced for the early 1400’s but not particularly useful in light of current medical advancement and will stand as an interesting relic of its day.
i dont care
It was probably scrawled by a Doctor. lol
Someone simply wanted to mess with future researchers? I’ve definitely left pieces of paper that are deliberately obtuse just to annoy anyone reading them later. Maybe if you had a lot of time in the late middle ages, and were bored one Saturday . . .
WOW!! Not only am I the second to contribute to this interesting and informative blog, but I find it amazing that I had never heard of this fascinating work. Thank you dictionary.com for continuing to educate me
Know what i think it is? A Game.
what will future civilizations think when they find our Dungeons and Dragons Monster manuals?
How did they survive as long as they did with so many ancient horrors?
Whys everything measured in “D”s?
Why can’t WE shoot fireballs out of our eyes!?
How can it be Voynich who discovered it, if he didn’t find it until 1912, and, according to this, this manuscript was written between 1404 and 1438? Otherwise, it is quite an interesting read. I had not heard about this manuscript before, but hopefully it will be deciphered at one point and it will be of value to the world of medicine, as this article suggests.
Years ago, I read about a new coffee-table book that was for sale at Christmastime. I understand it had intriguing pictures, and what looked like a text, but it was total nonsense.
Still, in 1404, vellum was too expensive to have been used for a deliberate hoax.
I reminds me of the runes left behind in Minnesota by the vikings who visited there in the 1200s. Some of them are encrypted too.
There is no possible way he could have written the book in the 1400s and then later “discovered” it in 1912
Personally, I’d go for the pharmacopoeia theory; today we have just as many undecipherable “manuscripts” with hidden messages on them of some apparent pharmacological value… the only difference is that nowadays we call them PRESCRIPTIONS.
Aliens!! It’s ALIENS!!!! :O
It is my understanding that Nostradamus predicted that when “Voynick is deciphered” a great flood will occur “in the land of many people”.
Its the Elder Scrolls VI !
If you look at the words, regardless of whether you recognise the gliffs or not, you can see that they are anagrams of old Italian, and the pictures relate to these words. In that way, it is simple to see that the Voynich manuscript is a form of reference book of the various objects that the artist found around them. The style and the genius involved points to a young Leonardo Da Vinci, as does the newly suggested time of creation that has just been atributed to it.
It’s alchemy. Definitely alchemy.
hey this is a good story bout this book everyone should read about this book
this book come out so people can read it i would like two read this book really soon it really sound like a really good book two read
Here’s some great insight — http://www.edithsherwood.com/voynich_decoded/
The writing is around 1400 – 1440, so it probably wasn’t Da Vinci who wrote it; he was born in 1452. It was around the time of the Renaissance, so perhaps it was another potential alchemist who wrote the manuscript under the cover of a doctor’s manual.
Cinema, oui?
It’s alchemy, watch: Herbal, to find the right herbs for instantly healing wounds; Astronomical, to find the coordinates for the nearest meteor landing so you can acquire rare substances*; Biological, to learn how to create life; Cosmological, to connect science with what we consider “magic”; Pharmaceutical, to suggest the right medication for an ill person; and Recipes, to learn how to combine herbs for maximum effect. All the systems here are used in the ancient study of alchemy.
*What I meant for this was, back in their time, there were no science labs. So, they might have been able to acquire substances that are scarce by collecting meteor fragments.
I know, it sounds dumb. But, I am just 13-years-old. So, please don’t be harsh. And, besides, it’s only theories. And that’s all we have. For now.
It IS possible Voynich wrote it (even though I don’t think he did). The vellum was carbon-dated not the ink. It is possible that he discovered a blank piece of vellum and wrote on it. Just had to play the devil’s advocate.
I like the Alchemy idea, but I think the Freemason’s might have something behind this too. I’m feeling a conspiracy being hatched here.
All I can say is that it looks like very beautiful, eloquent penmanship. If only those pages could talk.
PS – the ink dates to the early renaissance.
this book looks very interesting i wonder what it says
I can feel a Dan Brown novel in the making! Move over, DaVinci Code.
Maybe the words are a cover up. Maybe there’s something else hidden and the words aren’t important.
Maybe the “words” aren’t important. Maybe there’s something else on the pages…hidden.
I haven’t ever actually seen the writing, so I can’t give a very sensible theory, but, based on the little that I know about how people typically decipher codes, I think that it’s very possible for it to be its own language. Imagine an alien (someone from another region, be it on the planet or not) coming to an English-speaking country. It’s almost impossible for us to have the same language as them, so we have no way of communicating through manuscript. If someone devizes his or her own language without basing it off of any other language, then they have a virtually undecipherable cipher.
maybe it’s just a bunch of doodles? 
You know that manuscript should be made public so that people can try and decipher it 4 themself and maybe the meaning of it will come out
interesting!
Take a look at what Mimi pointed to – http://www.edithsherwood.com/voynich_decoded/
@ Christina M – the variation in the carbon dating given has a 40-year span. That means that they came up with an estimate and gave it 20 years either side to produce that span. Carbon dating is not a completely exact science as C-14 carbon never ages in precisely the same way. If Da Vinci was born in 1452, and wrote this at the age of 8 (and judging by his later work I believe a person of his acumen would be able to come up with something this detailed at that age and even devise a deceptive cypher), then it only takes a slight inaccuracy in the carbon dating to allow for this possibility. Even the handwriting looks like it could be Da Vinci.
It’s probably at the same complexity level as the enigma code, the thing it, with the enigma code, we had a machine to decipher it for us.
Maybe it is what Italian penmanship used to look like, before the times of digitalization and rushed shorthand.
so this rare book sounds really interesting to me:) and imagine how much work it takes to find out these types of mysteries.this is cool:) but what secrects does this book contains :0.i hope this mystery will be solved !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(there are 66 of these ! things for your calculations,don’t believe me?count them for yourself.that’s why they call me fun
CACTUS
stay in the loooooooooooooooooooop:)
wow…… this is amazing if i got my hands on it i could probaly read it……LOLZ
its a frod! whoever found it is a total liar something like this never comes up.
grant jacobson= facebook name
I honestly think it doesn’t matter. While language may be the foundation of all being, so to speak, some things are better left “unsaid” … if you will. It could be possible that there is nothing to read into (excuse the puns) and that we should just appreciate it for what it is: a sliver of history. As they say, “ignorance is bliss”, and maybe we self-righteous, conceited humans don’t need to know everything (:
it’s the recipie for coke.
@Grant Jacobson
“There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
than are dreamt of in your philosophy.”
it would be impossible for DiVinci to write it it was made from way befor his time even if he did it would have to be when he was a kid because he was working on so many other peces and that isent possible because the die was a very expencive they estemated that it was worth over 200 dollers back in there time just in materiles.
an alean wrote it i am serous
it would be impossible for DiVinci to write it it was made from way befor his time even if he did it would have to be when he was a kid because he was working on so many other peces and that isent possible because the die was a very expencive they estemated that it was worth over 200 dollers back in there time just in materiles. it would of taken 2 years and there was not one mastake
an alean wrote it i am serous
also just to let you adalts know i am 11 and i am in 6th grade
notice my spelling mastakes
cool……….i’d like to see it..
Some one should try typing it in google translator that should tell them the latin and other languages then they can guess the last couple of bits
During the early 1400s, when the manuscript was written, it was fairly common to see con-artists hawking cure-alls and recipes for making gold to ignorant wealthy Europeans. There is an old cipher method where you have a sheet of paper with strategically placed holes in it. And when those holes are laid on top of the writing, you read the letters in those holes. That same sheet of paper with holes can be used to generate a false text relatively quickly. The scammer writes all of his glyphs on a sheet and moves the holy paper over the glyph sheet. Whichever symbols are revealed, he copies into the book. This theory is supported by the fact that the book has not a single scratched-out line or mistake (most texts written then had plenty of scribbled-out parts, additions, etc., as parchment was very expensive and writing drafts was not common practice). In addition, carbon-dating samples taken from the beginning and end of the book were found to be almost exactly the same age, which may show that the book was written in a very short period of time (too short for a person to realistically be able to write over 200 pages with full illustrations, unless they used the cypher method). When one take a look at the rather clumsily-drawn illustrations, it is easier to see the possibility that somebody threw this book together rather quickly and after a showy demonstration of his healing powers, sold it to unwitting royalty for a large sum of money.
I find it more likely that a person would devise a way to con the rich and make money, when the alternative is that a person spent years, perhaps his/her whole lifetime collecting samples, testing the properties of plants and herbs and describing and classifying them, only to hide it from the by writing one copy of it in an unbreakable code.
although Italians are master at manufacturing fake antiques, this one must be as old as it seems since in 1912 Carbon 14 dating wasn’t known. It would have been an improbable set of circumstances for Mr Voynich to come across a stack of 15th century cured and unused parchment and for him to take the time to reverse-engineer some encyclopedia. More likely a fake would have been made with new velum aged by artificial means to create the illusion.The book is really an enigma since the amount of time, effort and ressources to produce it in the early 15th (as well as in the 20th) would have been prohibitive if it was just for a joke. Further it would have been extremely dangerous since a manuscript like this one would have appeared to be from satanic inspiration. The cypher is very sophisticated and probably rely on false assumptions about the vehicule and the subject.
I’m sure Watson, the Jeopardy computer could figure it out.
Wow I wish I could read it.
Hmm…I actually watched a documentary on the History channel about this 2 or 3 weeks ago. I’m only 14 and this had my attention. I want to know what thaat book is about (I mean I want to know what it says) It seems that no one knows how to decode this book…maybe the author of this book created a language by combinding latin and his own ‘personal’ language. I mean it’s not very hard to do, people at my school have created a language called “NINE” it mixes english, spanish, japanese and random symbols/penstrokes. Of corse, NINE is used for note passing, but thats not the point. If teens can create a language combinding several languages and random penstrokes, maybe someone in the 14-16th century did it too? If this is true, the author must have the fallowing skills: extinse knowladge, being very artistic, patience, a steady hand and must have alot of money. There are some pages that fold out in the book, plus the book has over 200 pages. Paper, which was animal hide back then, was expensive, exspecially if they a fold out was to be done. These cluses may seem small, but it helps alot. We may never find out who the true author is, but maybe one day we can decode it
I love this piece of trivia. Is the manuscript scanned and visible on the web?
Well, if it was written by Da Vinci way back when has anyone tried to decipher the mirror image of the document? Then that phrase that they’ve decoded as ‘icnivad ordranael’ might make sense. Hey wait, Icnivad Ordranael? Wasn’t that a cousin of Elrond?
I feel form the above given picture that it was written using a enciphering method like KAMA-SUTRA cipher ,used in India during 400AD which take into account all 64arts of a woman while enciphering a message and represent the entire message in symbols, these 64 arts are explained in KAMASUTRA book……
@I: They’re called “exclamation points”, so you know.
http://xkcd.com/593/
This is the solution.
i see it says 8 am
The book could have been found before Mr. Vonynich turned it in…it could have been found by his great-great grandpa…then passed down from family to family until the Vonynich we are talking about…sold it?…maybe he was in debt and sold it for money?…it could be…the possibilities are endless…
Hold it in front of a mirror, turn upside down, and begin reading. You’re welcome.
It sounds like something that would be very interesting to understand, and it might even unlock some secrets of the past! It’d also be a key to hopefully understanding other mysterious languages. See, history CAN be fun
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MAYBE, just maybe…this book was written by a girl…
Her full name was Mary Lettice, but her family called her Letti. She had a fantastic imagination and loved to pretend. Her father was a scribe for the king and supported his family. In the summer of her 14th year, while he was away at the castle, she went to his library, took his feather quill pen and an blank “scribe-book”. Missing her papa, she began to write…
I have seen this book on my father’s laptop. It’s very interesting yet confusing. Besides, what’s with the numbers in the top right corner? At first I thought they were the page numbers, but then I thought it was a guide. The plants? I thought the numbers told you the amount of plants or items you need for . . . I dunno. Anyhow, do you think that there is something in the blank spaces of the paper? I do.
By the way, theunkownutakofan I completely agree. Perhaps it is someone’s own ‘personal’ language. You know, people get bored so they make up stuff and get the whole world involved with it. For example, aliens that came to earth or som’n. Please no harshness! Believe it or not, I am a deep believer in outer space. So, anyway, it could be a guy in the 20th centery who threw us humans off track with the ‘unknown language’ whom is probobly laughing at us. Or, do you think maybe a king wrote it or something? You know, to another kingdom while the place was at war? It is possible.
. . . . . . . Ah. Me and my 11 year old imagination.
Oh! And I have three things in mind of what this could be.
1. It’s an alien
2. It’s ‘personal’ language
3. The guy was sycho
However, do you think the writing is Hebrew?
Anybody wonder about the De Ricci Census Vol. II 1846-7 on the inside cover, maybe Vol. I is still in Rome somewhere, probably in the Vatican.
Just wondering….
this is exciting! But, come on! Can’t at least SOMEONE decode it? No offense, but humans are pretty lame actually!
same thing as the weird banana!:)
i hope the other weird banana doesn’t copy me now!(laugh)
same thing as the weird banana!
really interesting! thank you dictionary com
~holly
wow interesting and here is sth. hard to decode
vby590 89n 8mub90./v9u4tvn489bn4 t9-4m59 509,y 590y m50=yk,n
A:vby590 89n 8mub90./v9u4tvn489bn4 t9-4m59 509,y 590y m50=yk,n
and froggy are u sure your answer works
@TwiliYoshiComet:
No, I don’t think so. I know that it’s not so. Hebrew is not exactly an obscure language. If it was Hebrew, it would have been recognized.
to I on February 15, 2011 at 4:41 pm
there are actually 65 exclamation points (!’s)
NOT 66!!!!!!! HAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!
Doesn’t it look familiar to anybody? Anyone read Lord of the Rings? Anyone actually look at the Elvish language that Tolkien created? If a man in the 20th century can create his own language than a man in the 15th century can.
@DJB LOL Are you talking about Narnia?
How about a pre-Indo-European language? The European languages today all go back to Indo-European roots, from the Bronze Age invasions or migrations by waves of barbarians coming into India and Europe from the Asian steppes and wrecking the ancient Neolithic civilizations — some of whose primeval languages came to be known as Etruscan, pre-Minoan Cretan etc. The only remaining Euro language related to Neolithic peoples (builders of stone circles like Stonehenge) is Basque. Just a thought… Most people don’t even know about the lost Old European Neolithic civilization (read Gimbutas).
Something tells me it had to do with warfare. During that era there were kingdoms rising and falling almost daily across Europe. Too long for a battle plan, it might have been a history of war
Someone so involved with plants could have stumbled upon a hallucinogen and decided to write whatever came to mind. Any pictures of mushrooms?
Is there a key to the manuscript? Or is that why scientists (or whatever you’re calling them) are having such a hard time decrypting the manuscript? If there isn’t a key to the language/code, could it be in the pictures? Because you have to admit, most people wouldn’t put in pictures with a manuscript of any kinds-it would just be words, words, and more words. Perhaps the pictures were put there to just spike everyone’s attention, like the person who wrote the manuscript knew (just KNEW) that we would find it and become utterly fascinated.
So, I say we should look towards the pictures, not the words. Look for a key in the pictures. I have no idea what you would look for in the pictures. Perhaps letter-like strokes in the images? I have no idea.
As for my theory? It probably shares some of the secrets from the 1400’s. You KNOW there has to be stuff that happened in the 1400’s that we don’t know about, and that could tell us some of the mysteries that happened. There could be some observations of the stars, bible, even plants(!) that we haven’t caught up on, but they did. I think that’d be pretty cool…just so long as they share exactly what the manuscript says…and posts it online perhaps as well. ;D
I still think DaVinci wrote it. I heard that he wrote backwards because he was left handed, so mabe looking at it in a mirror would help decode it? Furthermore carbon dating isn’t really all that accurate in the first place, so it could be a later date than the one that carbon dating calls for…just a thought
~Chick Drummer~
BTW you should not really comment w/o rtfa nor dismiss teams of scientists very lightly.
Publish sections of it on the web and see if anyone can break the code. If they can’t read it, what’s the harm? Maybe enough minds could do what a few minds could not.
If it was encrypted and involved healing, it was to protect the author and any book holders from charges of witchcraft. If healers could heal without needing “god’s intervention” aka The Church of Rome, then they were :witches” and burned at the stake, tortured, ot both. By encrypting the text, the book could be read by a select few but would be jibberish to any Catholic authorities… or modern scientists. Or it’s one heck of a great hoax! If a hoax, WHY? What else is in the book? If script is found beneath the hoax text, it could be even more important.
There’s a good program on the manuscript on PBS called The Voynich Mystery. There’s a YouTube link.
http://www.ovguide.com/tv_episode/the-voynich-mystery-season-1-episode-1-episode-1-1941461
aliens, because humans are aliens. /thread
Mistress of Darkness!!??!? Grow up!!
Me parece que lo importante no es saber quien lo haya escrito sino saber de qué trata el texto…
Tampoco tiene sentido que alguien lo haya escrito “para que lo encontraran después y todo el mundo se pregunte de qué trata”, como hago yo ahora que no me molesto en escribir en una lengua extranjera, si no me comprenden ahí tienen el traductor de Google.
imagine how many mysteries does the human race has kept for aeons!! and how cool it would be to decipher all those secrets, divine or otherwise!!!
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOwwwwwwwww!!!!! So cool, it’s just like me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
P.S. ( pears are stalkers and cell phones are trying to take over the world!)
Chuck Norris wrote it, and he is the only one who could ever decode it. He made it to get people crazy, which he succeeded in his attempt. Peace.
@ corey11
corey11 on February 15, 2011 at 8:00 pm
it would be impossible for DiVinci to write it it was made from way befor his time even if he did it would have to be when he was a kid because he was working on so many other peces and that isent possible because the die was a very expencive they estemated that it was worth over 200 dollers back in there time just in materiles. it would of taken 2 years and there was not one mastake an alean wrote it i am serous
corey11 on February 15, 2011 at 8:01 pm
also just to let you adalts know i am 11 and i am in 6th grade
corey11 on February 15, 2011 at 8:01 pm
notice my spelling mastakes
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First off, if you’re in the 6th grade, you must have wealthy parents to bribe your teachers, as your grammar, punctuation, and capitalization stinks. Also, if you KNOW you are making spelling mistakes, then get a tad bit more of an education, and FIX THEM.
Anyways, on to the story…
@ Toby P on February 15, 2011 at 2:36 pm
This is probably the only comment worth reading. Thank you Toby for not wasting my time. All of science’s time dating methods are flawed. None of them are exact. Each of them is used for different time frames based on ages past. If they were exact, then it would be exact regardless of the age. So, since there is a variable degree of inaccuracy, it is most certainly possibly, and highly probable, that Da Vinci may have done this piece of work.
The answer is simple. This is the book on how to understand women.
What about the encrypted sculpture that is outside the Langley, Virginia CIA headquarters that hasn’t been decoded yet!
There are no unknowns, only things that are not being shared.
Wasn’t Voynich a rare book dealer? Who’s to say he didn’t get his hands on some old vellum and other materials and just make the book himself, then write the book? Or what if he was able to acquire a really old vellum book that had never been written in and he did the drawings and the words?
Did the scientists test the ink, or just the vellum? What about the book’s cover?
Oh! It looks more complicated. However, how did they manage to know what might be written in the book such as the aforementioned purpose which it serve for ( i.e herb), meanwhile no one can read it. Therefore whoever sugest what might be written in the book will no about the language and how it is written. Not everything in life can be determined by computer or scanner.
How interesting is this!
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