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A manuscript which contains unreadable characters, that has not been deciphered so far.
The manuscript bears the name of the one who discovered it: Wilfrid Voynich, bookseller and merchant of old books.
The Yale University, which is the owner, allow hundreds of curious and researchers to access its contents on the Web :
View as Slideshow (Courtesy of Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library,Yale University )
Full text of the Voynich Manuscript "AS IS"
Text translated to European Voynich Alphabet " E.V.A. "
It is an illuminated manuscript (extra*) ,
created between 1400 and 1440.
Actually,Carbon-14 dating of the parchment (made from cow skin , most medieval manuscripts were written on specially treated animal skins.) showed it was made around the middle of the 15th century.
We truly cannot say when and where the manuscript was written , but the ink tests were consistent with having been written onto fresh vellum.
There are a lot of details-information in the famous illustration of the page known as Rosetta Page about the time of the author (and ,perhaps, of his place of origin).
Folio 86v , known as the Rosettes page.
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Castello di Fenis Torri
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It is a large folding out sheet which has depicted on it an interconnected group of nine circular forms.
The detail known as the castle or the city: a drawing in the upper right hand corner of the rosette page from the Voynich
It has swallow-tail (or ghibelline crenellations : a building style which is predominantly found in Northern Italy).
While these decorations are also found in other places in Italy and central Europe, they are closely associated with the Scaligers of the region around Verona, from the 14th century. Manuscripts with drawings of castles and other buildings with similar crenellations all tend to originate from N. Italy.
In German manuscripts only straight or guelph crenellations are observed.
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The Voynich MS is a book or "codex" which counted at least 116 parchment folios, of which 104 remain.
The folio size is 6 by 9 inches, but some folios are two or three times that size and are folded to fit in the book.
There is one large composite of six times this size (18 by 18 inches).
The MS is written in an elegant, but otherwise unknown script and almost all pages of the MS contain illustrations.
It is about 1.5 inches thick and has a blank limp vellum cover that does not contain any indication of age, authorship or origin.
Both the illustrations and the script of the manuscript are
unique. As long as the script cannot be read, the illustrations are the
only clue about the nature of the book. According to these illustrations,
the manuscript would appear to be a scientific book, mostly an illustrated
herbal with some additional sections.
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