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It is officially designated as MS 408 and is held at Yale University's Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library .
The manuscript is divided into several thematic parts based on its illustrations: Voynich Manuscript
Others argue it is "meaningless gibberish" created in the 15th century to be sold as a rare, "magic" book to wealthy collectors like Emperor Rudolf II. It is officially designated as MS 408 and
Some believe it's a phonetic representation of an extinct dialect or a precursor to a modern language, like proto-Romance or an encoded form of Hebrew. Carbon dating of the vellum (parchment) places its
Carbon dating of the vellum (parchment) places its creation between 1404 and 1438 .
Despite modern AI and the best code-breakers from WWII attempting to crack it, the "Voynichese" script has never been definitively translated. For redditors interested in the Voynich manuscript
The remains one of the world's most enduring mysteries: a 240-page book written in an entirely unknown script and filled with bizarre illustrations of non-existent plants, astrological diagrams, and nude women bathing in strange plumbing systems. The Facts