The World’s Most Mysterious Manuscript
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Touted as the most mysterious manuscript, the Voynick manuscript was discovered by a bookseller named Wilfrid Voynich, in 1912, in Mondragone Vile, near Rome.
As quoted by Discovery News, the old manuscripts is believed to be a relic from the 15th century. Greg Hodgins, member of the Department of Physics University of Arizona in collaboration with the School of Anthropology Arizona said that the manuscript was made somewhere in the years 1404-1438.
Voynich announced his discovery of the manuscript in hopes that it could somehow be translated. He claimed that the manuscript was previously owned by Rudolf II of Habsburg empire in the 16th century.
Voynich also believed that the manuscript was made by Roger Bacon, a British scientist of the 13th century. However, these claims was proven to be wrong after a carbon test had been carried out.
One thing for sure, the manuscript is 250 pages thick and consists of 250,000 characters which are very difficult for the meaning to identify. Divided into several groups, such as wsimple riting and sentences, some of them could resemble Latin letters and Roman numerals, while some others unknown.
In addition, manuscipt has included handwriting puzzles along with an intricate illustrations: unidentified plants, astrological symbols, pipelines, and images of women who were bathing in carian green.
“Who knows what is written on the manuscript. What does it have to do with botany? Are they marine organisms? Are these astrologies even relevant? Nobody knows,” said Hodgins.
Voynich manuscript
There is a speculation that the manuscript is the work of a religious sect, the only documents remaining from a language that has been long forgotten, or stores secret code which could lead to the recipe of the elixir of life. However, some experts have claimed that the manuscript was nothing but an hoax.
In 2003 a computer scientist Gordon Rugg demonstrated an idea that the texts in mansukrip could probably be solved by an encryption device that was found in 1550, Cardan Grille. “I have not been 100 percent sure of the accuracy of the estimated age of this manuscript, however.”
According to Nick Pelling, author of “The Curse of the Voynich,” chances are low that the manuscript was made after the year of 1500.
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On July 5, 2011 at 10:03 pm
If scientists were annoyed by this manuscript, what more for the ordinary people who lives normally without even knowing that such manuscripts exists? i think, if they’ll see one, they might discard it. It’s still a good thing that these articles are shared and so thanks you for that!
On July 5, 2011 at 11:39 pm
Yeah, and I doubt that the manuscript is just an hoax judging by the fact that it consist of 250 ‘unique’ pages and 250.000 characters in it I mean, seriously…
Well, my thanks goes to you also for reading this article.
On July 6, 2011 at 12:26 pm
It could be something as simple as the diary of a madman or as complicated as a science textbook in a secret language – we may never know for sure, but who doesn’t enjoy a mystery.
On July 13, 2011 at 7:21 am
it would take some time for cryptographers, linguists and symbologists to decode this manuscript