Person #3: Your druid doth lose two points. Person #2: Nae! The source booke sayeth that requires some wolfsbane! So when the renowned polymath and Baconian book collector John Dee came to visit with his mysterious manuscript. You see, the emperor had a weakness for all things occult and esoteric, especially the revered Doctor Mirabilis, Roger Bacon. Person #1: Forsooth! I concoct an elixir of courage. The Voynich Manuscript Edited by Raymond Clemens with an Introduction by Deborah Harkness The first authorized copy of this mysterious, much-speculated-upon. In the 16th century, Emperor Rudolph II of Prague made a very expensive impulse buy. The Voynich manuscript is not an especially glamorous physical object. Voynich was born into a Polish family in Lithuania, which belonged to the Russian Empire.
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Man: Just imagine someone found a book from _our_ time, full of lists, illustrations, tables, and long, dry descriptions of nonexistent worlds written in an invented language. Has a Mysterious Medieval Code Really Been Solved. This means youre free to copy and share these comics (but not to sell them). Obvious? Linguists and cryptographers have been stumped for decades. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.5 License.
Woman: It could be a hoax, a lost language, a cipher, an alien text, glossolatia - no one knows. It's some kind of visual encyclopedia of imaginary plants and undeciphered "recipes".
Woman: This is the Voynich manuscript - a book, allegedly 500 years old, written in an unrecognized script.