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The Voynich Manuscript
Enclosed by a protective shell of stone, the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library is one of the world’s foremost collections of rare manuscripts. Opened in 1963, the library is renowned for its translucent marble façade and the world-renowned, glass book tower within. Amongst its priceless books and manuscripts, we find The Voynich Manuscript.

Several times has it been dubbed as ‘The Most Mysterious Manuscript in the World’. It was named after its discoverer, he is a historical figure in his own right, born American, he is most known for his work as an antique book dealer and collector. Wilfrid M. Voynich, claims to have discovered the Voynich Manuscript in 1912, amongst a collection of several other ancient manuscripts These were then kept in Villa Mondragone, a patrician villa, on a hill 416m above sea-level, in an area with many castles and villas, thus named, Castelli Romani. You find it about 20 km south east of Rome, near the ancient town of Tusculum. Villa Mondragone, was afterwards turned into a Jesuit College, that in its turn, was closed in 1953.

Attached to the Voynich manuscript, was a piece of paper that was used as evidence of its past. From it, we know that the manuscript, once formed part of the private library of Petrus, the 22nd general of the Society of Jesus. This piece of paper is now stored in one of the boxes belonging with the Voynich manuscript holdings of the Beinecke library.

Wilfrid Voynich, according to his expertise, judged the manuscript to be from the late 13th century. He took his educated guess from the calligraphy, the drawings, the vellum, and the pigments. Today it is believed that it dates at least to 1586. Like most that look into this book, that is more than 200 pages long, He marvelled at its numerous and strange illustrations of fantastically coloured drawings. Moreover, its text was written in an unknown script, that, to this date, remains to be deciphered and it is by some considered without equal in the known world.
Among its amazing illustrations, are what seems to be, drawings of unidentified plants; along with what might be herbal recipes. We also find curiously depicted women, tiny in size and naked. They are presented frolicking in bathtubs that are connected by intricate plumbing. To some, the bizarre, naked and possibly pregnant women, are enjoying themselves in what looks like amusement-park water-slides. The later looking more like anatomical parts, than hydraulic contraption from the fifteenth century.
Scrolling through its pages, we also find mysterious charts, by some deemed as astronomical objects seen through a telescope, and others, as live cells seen through a microscope. There are also several pages dedicated to Astrological Charts, in these, you may see a strange calendar of zodiacal signs, one populated by tiny naked people apparently in rubbish bins.

Although there have been several declaring to have cracked the manuscript code, the truth is that, at least within public domain, nobody knows what this manuscript is. Decoding, depends on finding some common ground between the code and the reality of the Decoder. However, The Voynish Manuscript offers none. Of the enigmatic language used, and the unknown species of plants and herbs, that are nonetheless beautifully represented and water coloured, we know today about the same than Wilfrid, as he first studied the manuscript.
From what we now understand, and this considering that the original text, is linked to the drawings that share the pages with it, that the illustrations are divided into sections. This were Herbal, Astronomical, Biological, Cosmological, Pharmaceutical, and finally, what is thought to be a recipes section, that is made of many short paragraphs.
Appart from what was described above, there are also some pagination and several “key-like” sequences throughout the book, these do not match the original stylization of the manuscript, and are thus considered to have been added later on, for instance we find names of the months in the astronomical section.
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