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Unraveling the Voynich Codex (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
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Unraveling the Voynich Codex (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
Series: Fascinating Life Sciences
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Unraveling the Voynich Codex reviews the historical, botanical,
zoological, and iconographic evidence related to the Voynich Codex,
one of the most enigmatic historic texts of all time. The bizarre
Voynich Codex has often been referred to as the most mysterious
book in the world. Discovered in an Italian Catholic college in
1912 by a Polish book dealer Wilfrid Voynich, it was eventually
bequeathed to the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library of Yale
University. It contains symbolic language that has defied
translation by eminent cryptologists. The codex is encyclopedic in
scope and contains sections known as herbal, pharmaceutical,
balenological (nude nymphs bathing in pools), astrological,
cosmological and a final section of text that may be prescriptions
but could be poetry or incantations. Because the vellum has been
carbon dated to the early 15th century and the manuscript was known
to be in the collection of Emperor Rudolf II of the Holy Roman
Empire sometime between 1607 and 1622, current dogma had assumed it
a European manuscript of the 15th century. However, based on
identification of New World plants, animals, a mineral, as well as
cities and volcanos of Central Mexico, the authors of this book
reveal that the codex is clearly a document of colonial New Spain.
Furthermore, the illustrator and author are identified as native to
Mesoamerica based on a name and ligated initials in the first
botanical illustration. This breakthrough in Voynich studies
indicates that the failure to decipher the manuscript has been the
result of a basic misinterpretation of its origin in time and
place. Tentative assignment of the Voynichese symbols also provides
a key to decipherment based on Mesoamerican languages. A document
from this time, free from filter or censor from either Spanish or
Inquisitorial authorities has major importance in our understanding
of life in 16th century Mexico. Publisher's Note: For the eBook
editions, Voynichese symbols are only rendered properly in the PDF
format.
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