8/27/2023 0 Comments Voynich manuscript high resolution![]() ![]() Courtesy of the Beinecke Rare Books and Manuscripts Library, Yale University. Introduction to the Celestial Section, top of. Introductionįigure 1 Sample Voynich Manuscript Text. "Experts determine age of book 'nobody can read.'" PhysOrg. Keywords: Voynich Manuscript, Medieval Arabic, King Alfonso V, History of Cryptology, CatharsġStolte, Daniel. A hypothesis is developed that the patron funding production of the Voynich Manuscript may have been Alfonso V, king of Aragon/Catalonia and, King of Naples. Translation reveals that the text deals exclusively with the Cathars, a religious heresy prominent in the south of France in the 12th – 13th centuries. A 600-word dictionary of Arabic-Voynich-English was developed. An equivalency table between Arabic letters and the Voynich characters is developed, and large sections of the Voynich text are translated, including pages picturing flowers, stars, spices and women. This research shows that the strange Voynich symbols code for Arabic. The Voynich Manuscript has been called "The World's Most Mysterious Manuscript" and "The Book Nobody Can Read.” Sections of the manuscript appear to deal with strange plants and flowers, naked women lounging in pools of water, celestial bodies such as stars, the moon and the Sun, and kitchen spices and herbs. 1 The document has been studied by numerous cryptographers, but until this time no one has demonstrably deciphered the text. “So the Voynich Manuscript could be one of the books Widemann got his hands on and sold to the emperor, because, for sure, it would have already looked valuable back then to a collector of weird and precious things like emperor Rudolf.The Voynich Manuscript (VM) is an illustrated codex hand-written in a unique writing system whose pages have been carbon-dated to 1404-1438 CE. Newly found archival material has revealed that Rauwolf owned a small collection of books, Guzy adds. “I assume that he probably inherited some books from him (it also seems that both families were somehow related).” “ lived in the Augsburg house of the well known botanist Dr Leonard Rauwolf, and he started selling books to the emperor immediately after the death of Rauwolf and his widow, who both had no children,” Guzy says. The 600 gold coins mentioned in Marci’s letter was also an extremely expensive price for a single book, so it would make sense for the Voynich Manuscript to have been sold as part of a small collection.īut if Widemann was the manuscript’s owner before Rudolf, how did it come into his possession? One intriguing option stands out. “Even if a deal was made with ducats or thaler, florins were usually used for the final transaction.”Ī spread from the Voynich Manuscript Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut “Almost all of the emperor’s money transactions were made in guilders (florin), usually Rhenisch guilders, with only very few in thaler or ducats so I believe that the information in the letter was just meant to be ‘gold coins,’ which both florin and ducats are,” Guzy says. A further record refers to the collection as “remarkable/rare books” and that they were transported in a small barrel, Guzy writes in his research paper, published in the proceedings of the first International Conference on the Voynich Manuscript 2022. The records revealed that in 1599, the physician Carl Widemann sold a collection of manuscripts to Rudolf for 500 silver thaler, an amount cited in another record by its equivalent in gold, 600 florin-another type of gold coin. Luckily, out of almost 7,000 journal entries, including 126 book transactions, only one case involved a book sale for 600 gold coins. ![]() The letter from Johann Marcus Marci to Athanasius Kircher, found with the Voynich Manuscript Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut ![]()
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