The Voynich Manuscript for Beginners

In the library of a famous Ivy League college rests an illuminated manuscript book, hundreds of pages long. No-one knows how old it is, where it comes from, who wrote it, or what it is about.

A monarch is believed to have bought it for a fabulous sum from a notorious practitioner of the black arts, after which it disappeared for centuries.

Its illustrations are pictures of unidentifiable plants and incomprehensible scientific diagrams.

The text is in an unknown script which some of the world’s best codebreakers have been unable to decipher.

The language of the script is also unknown, but computer analysis shows that the manuscript is written in no known human tongue.

This is the mysterious Voynich Manuscript, subject of nearly 300 books and more than 200,000 hits on Google.

If you want to find out more about it, this illustrated account is the best place to start.

Conveniently short, it summarises the curious history of the manuscript and the attempts at its decipherment, and its unique features and associated enigmas.

If it catches your interest, it will guide you through the vast literature and suggest the best places to find further information.

Like the US government, which has spent a small fortune over half a century trying to solve it, you may find the puzzle of the Voynich Manuscript easier to pick up than put down.

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