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This is a photo of a signature in the manuscript that apparently says "Leonardo", as in Leonardo Da Vinci. Some people still have the theory that young Leonardo Da Vinci was the creator of the Manuscript. This could have possibly been a good theory if carbon dating didn't already prove that the book was created before he was even born. Many people say that Da Vinci is the creator because the drawings are quite fantasy like and messy. Many people believe this because of patternicity and some of the "evidence" (like this signature) that they have found. Most of it is a coincidence.

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This is a photo of Wilfrid Voynich. He claimed he acquired the Manuscript in 1912 at the Villa Mondragone in Italy. He was an antiquarian who collected many different types of books. This theory made sense before they did a lot of tests on the Manuscript. They carbon dated it, as well as tested the ink from the book. All of it came back to show that the book obviously was original and not created in the 1900's. This follows the simplicity reason for belief because they didn't have a lot of leads when they thought Voynich had forged the book.

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This is a funny comic I found on the internet. I believe it is hinting that the Manuscript is obviously a "how-to" booklet for some sort of fantasy game. I believe they are probably referring to Dungeons and Dragons, or something similar. Many people do believe that the Manuscript is just a hoax that was written for fun or to confuse people. The reason people most likely believe the Manuscript is a hoax is because of how unexplained it all is.

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This website contains pretty much every theory on the manuscript you could think of. Some of the theories are logical, while some are illogical (i.e. "aliens wrote it"). As well, some of the theories on the website have been disproved (i.e. Leonardo Da Vinci wrote it). For example, a link to another website written by James E. Finn describes "The Voynich Manuscript is most likely part of an end times documentgiven to mankind by Aliens, UFO's, in medieval times". The reason for belief behind that article is agenticity, where he believes that a higher power (aliens) have given us the book to warn of us end times. The red flag seen with this would be mystical energy (http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/ciencia/esp_ciencia_manuscrito02.htm).

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If you have ever found yourself asking " Where can I found out about XYZ's moderately-loopy-but-eerily-hard-to-disprove Voynich Manuscript theory? ", then you've come to the right place. Here's very probably the longest list of such theories on the Internet...

Tim Ackerson is quite sure that the VMs was written in Early Welsh / Old Cornish from the 7th to 8th century AD.

Zbigniew Banasik claimed that the VMs is written in the Manchu language (summary and links by Jorge Stolfi).

Robert S. Brumbaugh came to various conclusions about the VMs (many of which hinged on his interpretations of the short number columns on f49r), such as that it was a 16th century cipher, or (later) a 16th century fake of a 15th century cipher. Either way, Brumbaugh thought the alphabet was a lossy number cipher, with each glyph basically standing in for an Arabic numeral. See D'Imperio's "Elegant Enigma", section 5.4.

Dan Burisch claims that the VMs was written down in enciphered Hebrew by Roger Bacon, and that it describes some kind of alien technology from the future for creating DNA with sound. [See this Cipher Mysteries blog entry.]

Jim Child, an Indo-European linguist who has been studying the VMS since the late 1970s, sees Voynichese as a pronounceable early German language.

Jim Comegys believes that the VMs was a medical book written in Nahuatl (the language of the Aztec) possibly by Francisco Hernandez, and has written a book describing his claim.

Erich von Däniken covers the Voynich Manuscript in his (2009) book "History Is Wrong", linking it with the Book of Enoch and a whole load of other things.

Karel Dudek tries to argue that the VMs was created by Georg Handsch of Limuz.

Steve Ekwall posted two webpages on the Voynich as revealed to him by an "Excitant Spirit" in October 2000. Most of it is covered by his main web-page, but there is an additional "Folding KEY 101" page here. Note: some broken links.

Joseph Martin Feely constructed what he believed to be a partial decipherment of page f78r, but his claimed "clews" and his mangled Latin failed to convince any cryptologist. See Mary D'Imperio's "Elegant Enigma" [section 5.2] for more, and a fuller account in Kennedy & Churchill pp.109-115.

James Finn ("Big Jim")'s theory that the VMs is written in Hebrew, and warns of a coming end-time.

William Friedmann proposed that the manuscript is written in an artificial language, not unlike Dalgarno's Real Character. [see D'Imperio's "An Elegant Enigma", sections 6.5, 6.6, 9.3]

Jacques Guy on the enduring life of his Chinese Hypothesis.

Beatrice Gwynn from Dublin thinks it's a sixteenth-century hygiene manual, written in left-right mirrored Middle High German. [Kennedy & Churchill, p.242]

Wayne Herschel is certain that the star disk on page f68r3 of the Voynich Manuscript is a hidden record of a golden plate with secret writing given to Judas by Jesus Christ.

George Hoschel Jr thinks that the VMs is a strange kind of recipe book in "Old Latin" (where f80v says "SAVED CRUMBLED DRIED TO HOOPOE KIDNEY", etc)

Volkhard Huth concludes that the VMs came from around Germany, and dates it to around 1480-1500.

Miguel Lahunkun (a notorious Internet poster) claimed to have decrypted the VMs in a Google Groups post.

Erhard Landmann posted up his theories on the VMs in German here [pdf], and in French here [pdf], and in English here [pdf].

Leo Levitov's Cathar Theory (as summarized & criticized by Dennis Stallings).

Jody Maat believes that the VMs is readable as a (vaguely polyglot) Old Dutch.

Claude Martin's assertion that the VMs is not only number-encoded (rather like Brumbaugh), but also meaningless.

Adam D. Morris suspects that the VMs might have something to do with Hieronymus Reusner's Pandora (a version of the 'Buch der heiligen Dreifaltigkeit').

William Romaine Newbold sensationally claimed that the VMs was written by Roger Bacon in a multi-layered micrographic cipher, and described using telescopes to view galaxies.

Ursula Papke has a kind of NLP-like transcendental interpretation of the Voynich glyphs, wherein each glyph gets decomposed into constituent strokes, and the kind of "stroke harmonies" that implicitly make up individual words are interpreted to tell a kind of rising/falling/looping narrative.

Chris Parry's assertion that the VMs is a-pretend-foreign-language-fake.

Nick Pelling's theory that Antonio Averlino was the author of the VMs [book site]

Rolando Hernandez Rivero posted that the Voynich Manuscript was written in "Old Spanish" (but with bits of Latin and English thrown in).

Richard Rogers claims that the VMs is an ultra-terse Renaissance drawing language, to describe (presumably) heretical symbols without actually drawing them.

Gordon Rugg's hoax-is-a-possibility theory, which makes use of a modified Cardan Grille to simulate some (but not all) of the oddly-structured nature of the Voynichese text.

Richard SantaColoma claims that the VMs was probably written by Cornelius Drebbel, or perhaps was a stage prop constructed by Francis (not Roger) Bacon.

Dirk Schröder has his own Kabbalistic / numerological take on the VMs [in German], which probably won't prove very convincing to you unless you are already certain of the power of numerology.

Edith Sherwood believes the VMs was created by a very young Leonardo da Vinci (even though he was left-handed)

John Stojko's vowel-less Ukrainian theory: "Letter to God's Eye"

Dr Leonell Strong believed that he had deciphered the two pages of the VMs he had reasonable reproductions of, using a base alphabet local to a section of ciphertext but with an offset cycling through the set [0]135797531474. More recently taken up by long term Voynich researcher Glen Claston, but still doubted by more traditional cryptologists (such as Jim Gillogly). Mentioned in Mary D'Imperio's "Elegant Enigma" [section 5.3].

Mark Sullivan thinks that the number column on page f66r holds the key to deciphering the VMs (and that the underlying language is Latin).

Mandy Tonks asserts that not only was the VMS faked, but that Wilfrid Voynich also hoaxed the Marci letter that he claimed to have found with it.

Wilfrid Voynich was convinced - apparently even before he read the Marci letter - that it was Roger Bacon who had created the object we now call "The Voynich Manuscript" (but which Voynich himself called "The Roger Bacon Manuscript").

And finally, Voynich theorists who wish to remain (at least partially) anonymous...

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This article goes over some history of the manuscript as well as some conspiracy theories that people in online forums have come up with.
Some people speculate that it is a "Mayan Codex". 9/11 conspiracy theorists have their own group of ideas. The 9/11 conspiracy theorists have a certain ideology that fit in with their ideas and beliefs. There is evidence of the red flag red herring with the 9/11 conspiracy theories.

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The word "ink" is a child of the Latin incaustum, which means "having been burned." In the Middle Ages, people thought that ink burned its way into parchment, because iron-gall inks go onto the page pale, then darken. This is not what's happening, physically, but it makes sense as a metaphor: a medieval manuscript, because it was made by hand, is necessarily an original, even when it is a copy of something else. It cannot be standardized any more than a thing can be unburned.

The Voynich Manuscript is a special kind of original. We know, thanks to carbon dating, that it was put together in the early fifteenth century. But no living person has ever, as far as we know, understood it. Nobody can decode the language the book is written in. It has no title and no author. A new facsimile, edited by Raymond Clemens and published by Yale University Press, draws attention to the way that we think about truth now: the book invites guesses, conspiracy theory, spiritualism, cryptography. The Voynich Manuscript has charisma, and charisma has lately held a monopoly on our attentions.

The manuscript is two hundred and twenty-five millimetres tall, a hundred and sixty wide, and five centimetres thick. Yale's new facsimile is somewhat larger, as it includes wide white margins for the amateur cryptographer's own marginalia. The manuscript's Renaissance-era cover (it was rebound) is made of what the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, at Yale, calls a "limp vellum." The book has resided at Yale's library since 1969.

Turn the covers-as Umberto Eco once did; it was the only book in the Beinecke's famous collection that he cared to see-and you are greeted by writing in brown ink accompanied by strange diagrams and paintings of plants. The writing will not be decipherable to you. The book was made in the ordinary medieval way, but the script-the form of its letters, the language itself-was apparently invented by whoever made it. Some call the language and its script "Voynichese." The letters loop prettily, and the text runs from left to right, top to bottom.

The first half of the book is filled with drawings of plants; scholars call this the "herbal" section. None of the plants appear to be real, although they are made from the usual stuff (green leaves, roots, and so on; search a word like "botanical" in the British Library's illuminated-manuscript catalogue and you'll find several texts that are similar to this part). The next section contains circular diagrams of the kind often found in medieval zodiacal texts; scholars call this part "astrological," which is generous. Next, the so-called "balneological" section shows "nude ladies," in Clemens's words, in pools of liquid, which are connected to one another via a strange system of tubular plumbing that often snakes around whole pages of text. These scenes resemble drawings in the alchemical tradition, which gave rise to a now debunked theory that the thirteenth-century natural philosopher Roger Bacon wrote the book. Then we get what appear to be instructions in the practical use of those plants from the beginning of the book, followed by pages that look roughly like recipes.

Voynich is not a word from the book but, rather, the name of an eccentric book dealer, Wilfrid Michael Voynich, who bought the manuscript, in 1912. When Voynich purchased the text, it was accompanied by a letter by Johannes Marcus Marci (1595-1667), of Prague, who claimed that the book had been "sold to Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II at a reported price of 600 ducats and that it was believed to be a work by Roger Bacon." (Voynich would later say that the seller was the occult philosopher John Dee; Clemens points out that he was nudged toward this hypothesis by a historical novel.) The book appears to have bounced around Prague for a while-in 1639, a person named Barchius described it as "a certain riddle of the Sphinx, a piece of writing in unknown characters," and guessed that "the whole thing is medical." The book's historical trail vanishes in 1670, up until the time that Voynich purchased it.

Yale's new edition affords Voynich a profile, by Arnold Hunt, which turns out to be warranted by his strong and odd personality. Voynich was born in 1864, in Telšiai, to a Polish family. He supposedly spoke twenty languages fluently. He was arrested in Kovno, in 1885, for his membership in the Proletariat Party, a social-revolutionary group, and sentenced, without trial, to exile in Siberia for five years. He got a lot of reading done there, and then he escaped, travelling widely and ultimately bartering his waistcoat and glasses for a spot on a boat from Hamburg to England. There, he became part of the intellectual circle that surrounded the Russian agitator Sergei Kravchinsky, known as Stepniak. Once his adventuring days were over, Voynich became a book dealer-a good one, although he once accidentally (one hopes) sold a forgery to the British Museum. "Voynich in later life would sometimes point dramatically to the wounds he had received" on his youthful adventures, Hunt notes: "Here I have sword, here I have sword, here I have bullet."

In 1903, the Jesuits decided to sell a group of texts from the Collegio Romano collection to the Vatican; the sale took nine years to complete. For reasons unknown, and under conditions of total secrecy, Voynich managed to procure some of the books before they entered the Vatican Library. One of them was the Voynich Manuscript. Voynich believed that his impenetrable book contained authentic wisdom-or, at least, he said so during publicity kicks in the States, trying to make his treasured book famous. "When the time comes," he told the Times, "I will prove to the world that the black magic of the Middle Ages consisted in discoveries far in advance of twentieth-century science."

Voynich never cracked the code, if one indeed exists. In "Cryptographic Attempts," another essay that accompanies the Yale facsimile, William Sherman notes that "some of the greatest code breakers in history" attempted to unlock the manuscript's mysteries; the impenetrability of Voynichese became a professional problem for those in the code game. William Romaine Newbold, a professor of intellectual and moral philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania in the early part of the twentieth century, "persuaded himself that the writing used both a cipher common from Bacon's alchemical manuscripts along with a separate-and far more complicated-system best described as an anagrammed micrographic shorthand." This system of cipher "requires transposition (changing the order of the letters), abbreviation (using a system taken from ancient Greece), and microscopic notation (whereby individual pen strokes within a single character, when magnified, serve as shorthand symbols for other letters)." This theory was initially endorsed by the eminent medievalist John Matthews Manly, who had worked as one of the U.S. Army's chief cryptologists during the First World War. But it did not hold up to closer scrutiny, and Manly eventually concluded that Newbold's "decipherments were not discoveries of secrets hidden by Roger Bacon but the products of his own intense enthusiasm and his learned and ingenious subconscious."

The next great mind to apply itself to the manuscript's code belonged to William F. Friedman, another Army cryptographer, who was among the first people to use computers for textual analysis. In 1925, Manly connected Friedman and his wife, Elizebeth, also a cryptographer, with the manuscript, sending them photographs. They worked on the project for forty years. Friedman and his colleagues broke Japan's code Purple during the Second World War, and Friedman became the chief cryptanalyst for the War Department and head of the Signals Intelligence Service in the forties and fifties. The historian David Kahn called him the "world's greatest cryptologist." By 1944, Friedman had formed the Voynich Manuscript Study Group with some colleagues.

The group never cracked the code. The Friedmans did, however, provide an enigmatic message about the manuscript in an article in Philogical Quarterly, "Acrostics, Anagrams, and Chaucer," published in 1959. The article included a long excursus on the pointlessness of looking for anagrammatic ciphers; a note revealed that the statement itself was an anagram. The authors had left the solution to the anagram in a sealed envelope with the P.Q. editor. After William died in 1970, that editor revealed the message along with a reprint of the piece: "The Voynich MS was an early attempt to construct an artificial or universal language of the a priori type.-Friedman."

According to Sherman, the majority of those who have tried their hand at the manuscript's code "have been amateurs, and many have more interest in conspiracy theories than cryptographic systems." Nowadays, you can find people trying to crack the code on Reddit. There are many competing theories. Some suggest that the manuscript might be part of a "conworld," or constructed fantasy-but then one poster responds, "I don't see why someone would create such an expensive manuscript if this were the case." Another Redditor asks, "Anyone else wondering if this is material from a lost Mayan codex?"

You can find serious scholarly work among the Redditors' posts, but most of it is just fun speculation. It is interesting nonetheless, because it's written in a voice that has shaped communal understanding in our time. Speculative knowledge flourishes in moments of uncertainty and fear. "They don't want you to know the truth," the speculators say to their faithful, on the left and on the right. 9/11 conspiracy theories are less frightening than the truth, which is that our lives are always in danger. Astrologers point to an invisible world, freeing its subscribers from the visible one that oppresses them. Tarot facilitates healing conversations. Whether code breaker or spiritualist or amateur historian, the Voynich speculators are linked by their common interest in the past, quasi-occult mystery, and insoluble problems of authenticity. When the book was featured in a recent episode of the Sherlock Holmes-inspired television show "Elementary," Clemens writes, it stood in "for a mysterious but learned reference to past mysteries that somehow hold important meaning for the present."

Readers will probably never stop forming communities based on the manuscript's secrets. Humans are fond of weaving narratives like doilies around gaping holes, so that the holes won't scare them. And objects from premodern history-like medieval manuscripts-are the perfect canvas on which to project our worries about the difficult and the frightening and the arcane, because these objects come from a time outside culture as we conceive of it. This single, original manuscript encourages us to sit with the concept of truth and to remember that there are ineluctable mysteries at the bottom of things whose meanings we will never know.

Josephine Livingstone is a writer living in New York.
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The Unsolvable Mysteries of the Voynich Manuscript

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The word "ink" is a child of the Latin incaustum, which means "having been burned." In the Middle Ages, people thought that ink burned its way into parchment, because iron-gall inks go onto the page pale, then darken.

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Website #1- Archive of The Voynich Manuscript

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This website is the archive of the actual Voynich Manuscript. You can view every single page of the manuscript on this website.
There is no explanation paragraph with the book. From doing a quick overview of the book you can notice that the book has different sections. Like mentioned in some of the videos and websites I viewed, you can clearly see a botanical section and a astrology section. Using my critical thinking skills and can look at many pages of the books and see that it looks like a fantasy book. Many of the plants are make-believe and horoscopes aren't commonly known to be true.

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The Voynich Manuscript : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

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The Voynich Manuscript is a document that is notable for its strange text, that to date hasn't been decyphered. Theories range from a secret language or code...

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Video #3- William Shatner on The Voynich Manuscript

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Video #3- William Shatner on The Voynich Manuscript

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This is an episode of William Shatner's TV show, "Weird or What?". It is covering more of the 'paranormal' side of the Voynich Manuscript.
It goes over the theories that the Manuscript has predicted Dooms Day or that the plants drawn in the book are from another planet all together. The video also explains how to book was made in the 15th century, right when the Dark Ages were ending. That meant that alchemy and the "dark arts" were being explored. This again can be put under the "unexplained" reason why people believe this stuff. The red flags of this video are ancient wisdom. This book was written so long ago that any "science" in it (like the mysterious plants) is most likely wrong or made up.

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Voynich Manuscript : Mysterious book that contains many UNDECIPHERED secrets!!

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Voynich Manuscript Named after the Polish-American antiquarian bookseller Wilfrid M. Voynich, who acquired it in 1912, the Voynich Manuscript is a detailed 240-page book written in a language or script that is completely unknown.

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Video #2- Voynich Code - The Worlds Most Mysterious Manuscript - The Secrets of Nature

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This is a long documentary-styled video which goes over the history of decoding and finding the author of the Voynich manuscript.
Many theories are evaluated in this video, including the theory that young Leonardo Da Vinci was the author. This video is good because it applies critical thinking skills along with looking at evidence for disproving certain theories. In the end they prove all the current theories held are false because of carbon dating techniques. They concluded that all of the people they suspected to be the author were either born too early or too late to be the author.

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Voynich Code - The Worlds Most Mysterious Manuscript - The Secrets of Nature

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Subscribe to watch full natural history and science documentaries! A new documentary is uploaded every week. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thesecretsof... Twitter: https://twitter.com/NatureUniversum It is the world's most mysterious manuscript. A book, written by an unknown author, illustrated with pictures that are as bizarre as they are puzzling -- and written in a language that even the best cryptographers have been unable to decode.

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Video # 1 - The Mystery Of The Voynich Manuscript

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This is a short video giving an overview of what the Voynich Manuscript is.
The video does not offer a lot of explanation for where the book came from. There is no mention of any supernatural or paranormal reasonings for the book. One of the hypothesis for the book is that it was all a hoax and someone just made it up. This is an example of the "unexplained" reason for belief. They have a date for the book because of carbon dating, but they do not know the origins. I think many people still believe the book has an actual meaning because there is still research being done on the book.

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The Mystery Of The Voynich Manuscript The Voynich Manuscript is written in a language or script that is notoriously impossible to decode. Is it a lost language, a unique code or an elaborate hoax? Don't forget to Subscribe for more Conspiracies! - http://bit.ly/1dmVsvF A massive thank you to our super fans who have supported us on our Patreon page.