Voynich manuscript copy professional#
Voynich manuscript copy series#

Voynich manuscript copy professional#

'The publication by Yale University Press of an actual-size colored facsimile, with an informative set of specialist essays on the manuscriptвЂ™s history, materials, cryptological puzzles, and public impact, will no doubt encourage wider engagement with its enigmas and set off a multitude of amateur as well as professional attempts to decipher it.'-Eamon Duffy, The New York Review of Books

Voynich manuscript copy series#

This fascimilie and the accompanying series of essays give a clear sense of the current state of knowledge on the manuscript and reveal the findings of new research.вЂќ-H.R. This beautiful facsimile will make it available for many more people to become enticed and entranced by it.вЂќ-David V. вЂњThe Voynich MS has inspired generations of enthusiasts dedicated to deciphering it. 'For people who like a good historical mystery, this first authorized publication of the fifteenth- or sixteenth-century Voynich Manuscript will fascinate.'-Rebecca Onion, Slate 'For the first time, a complete reproduction The Voynich Manuscript (Yale University Press), has been published, featuring essays exploring what is known about the book and extra-wide margins so readers can record their responses to its beguiling, beautiful strangeness.'-Nina Maclaughlin, Boston Globe Raymond Clemens is Curator of Early Books and Manuscripts at the Yale University Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library and coauthor of Introduction to Manuscript Studies.Дeborah HarknessВ is a historian of science, professor at the University of Southern California, and the author of the New York Times best-selling All Souls trilogy. 'synopsis' may belong to another edition of this title. Instead, as New York Times best-selling author Deborah Harkness says in her introduction, the book вЂњinvites the reader to join us at the heart of the mystery.вЂќ The essays that accompany the manuscript explain what we have learned about this work-from alchemical, cryptographic, forensic, and historical perspectives-but they provide few definitive answers. For the first time, this facsimile, complete with elaborate folding sections, allows readers to explore this enigma in all its stunning detail, from its one-of-a-kind вЂњVoynicheseвЂќ text to its illustrations of otherworldly plants, unfamiliar constellations, and naked women swimming though fantastical tubes and green baths. The bookвЂ™s language has eluded decipherment, and its elaborate illustrations remain as baffling as they are beautiful. The manuscript appears and disappears throughout history, from the library of the Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II to a secret sale of books in 1903 by the Society of Jesus in Rome. Written in an unknown script by an unknown author, the manuscript has no clearer purpose now than when it was rediscovered in 1912 by rare books dealer Wilfrid Voynich. Many call the fifteenth-century codex, commonly known as the вЂњVoynich Manuscript,вЂќ the worldвЂ™s most mysterious book. The Voynich Manuscript is produced from new photographs of the entire original and accompanied by expert essays that invite anyone to understand and explore the enigma. The first authorized copy of this mysterious, much-speculated-upon, one-of-a-kind, centuries-old puzzle.