For those who don’t know: the Voynich Manuscript is one of those oddities that crop up in historical research from time to time. It’s supposedly a 15th century manuscript that’s written in this weird language and alphabet that nobody can read and has a lot of strange illustrations; I say ‘supposedly’ because even the date is a matter of some controversy. Carbon dating pretty much says that the vellum at least is likely that old, but a forgery put together by Wilfrid Voynich (20th century bookseller) or somebody else could still be maybe possible?
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