

I am deciphering the manuscript of Voynich and got positive results. Josh Jones is a writer and musician based in Durham, NC. Has the Voynich Manuscript Finally Been Decoded?: Researchers Claim That the Mysterious Text Was Written in Phonetic Old Turkish
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The Writing System of the Cryptic Voynich Manuscript Explained: British Researcher May Have Finally Cracked the Code See the further “Deep Dive” on the Voynich manuscript’s many historical owners-both confirmed and rumored-just above.Įxplore Online the Mysterious Voynich Manuscript: The 15th-Century Text That Linguists & Code-Breakers Can’t UnderstandĪrtificial Intelligence May Have Cracked the Code of the Voynich Manuscript: Has Modern Technology Finally Solved a Medieval Mystery? As more Voynich scholars undertake frustrating, and often fruitless, investigations, they add to the manuscript’s lore, itself so rich as to occasion another, two-hour, follow-up video from our documentarian, who goes by the name The Histocrat on YouTube. Other proposed authors have included Queen Elizabeth I’s advisor John Dee, an alchemist and occult philosopher, and Franciscan friar and philosopher Roger Bacon, who was renowned as a wizard almost two centuries before the extant Voynich could have been produced.Įvidence for these claims is often tenuous, but the wealth of speculation to which the Voynich has given rise only deepens the mystery of its creation. Wilfred Voynich has often been suspected as the manuscript’s true author, but its materials have been carbon dated to the early 1400s, and its first confirmed owner, an alchemist from Prague named George Baresch, lived in the 17th century. This may say as much about the mysterious Voynich as it does about the niche research area, in which academic linguists, codicologists, and all manner of amateur sleuths try to make a name for themselves as Jean-François Champollions of Voynich studies. No Voynich translation has been definitively accepted by a scholarly consensus, and perhaps none ever will.

This year a father and son team convincingly made the case for Old Turkic. Researchers have tried to translate the Voynich language as variant forms Latin, Arabic, and Sino-Tibetan.


Is it a lost ancestor tongue? The secret code of a cult? Is it a hoax? Why was it made and by whom? But it’s filled with bizarre illustrations ( see an online version here) and written in a language no one can read. Like many other early 15th century texts, the Voynich seems to combine medicine, alchemy, herbology, botany, zoology, astrology, and other forms of folk knowledge in a compendium. If you’re a regular reader of Open Culture, you know we like to bring you the latest attempts to decipher the legendary Voynich Manuscript, a strange medieval book whose language has baffled scholars for centuries.
