The Voynich Manuscript Appears To Follow Zipf's Law. Could It Be A Real Language? The ancient, indecipherable text appears to follow a law followed by nearly all known real languages.

Early owners The Voynich Manuscript ’s earliest known probable owner is Carl Widemann, a physician and alchemist based in Augsburg, Germany, who was also a collector and book dealer. He appears ...

The Voynich Manuscript is one of the most famous mysteries in ancient codicology or paleography. This illustrated manuscript, authored by an unknown writer and written in an undeciphered alphabet, ...

Really interesting article on the ancient-manuscript scholars who are applying their techniques to the Voynich Manuscript. No one has been able to understand the writing yet, but there are some new ...

The Polish-American bookseller Wilfred M. Voynich—after whom the manuscript is now named—purchased it in 1912. Voynich moved to the U.S. in 1919, hoping to sell the manuscript for a large sum.

The 240-page document in question takes its name from Wilfrid Voynich, the Polish book dealer who purchased the manuscript in 1912. It’s written in a code language, which wouldn’t be so hard ...

To many, the Voynich Manuscript represents a 600-year-old mystery. The medieval text is filled with bizarre illustrations and is written in a hitherto indecipherable language.

Late-medieval sexology and gynaecology Research on the Voynich manuscript has revealed some clues about its origins. Carbon dating provides a 95% probability the skins used to make the manuscript ...

It is the only research of the Voynich Manuscript that is primarily and generally based on its linguistic source – the lexicology, but not on the analysis of phytomorphs’ similarities with herbarium ...

Voynich bought the manuscript, and it wasn’t long before it excited imaginations across the globe. Today, the Voynich Manuscript, as it became known, is kept in Yale University’s Beinecke Rare ...

The Voynich Manuscript! Experts think the Voynich Manuscript was written in the 15th Century. Who wrote it? No one is quite sure, but historians believe it came from Central Europe. Since then, it’s ...