For now, he thinks the book is "probably a treatise on nature, perhaps in a Near Eastern or Asian language."īax has explained his ideas in a manuscript and in a YouTube video on his website.įollow Megan Gannon on Twitter and Google+. Some pages are missing, but there are now about 240 vellum pages, most with illustrations.
It is named after the book dealer Wilfrid Voynich, who purchased it in 1912. A recent statistical study published in the journal PLOS ONE found that " Voynichese" adheres to linguistic rules.īax notes that the manuscript is still a long way from being understood, and that he is coming forward with what he's found thus far in the hopes that other linguists will work with him to crack the code. The Voynich manuscript, described as the world’s most mysterious manuscript, is a work which dates to the early 15th century (14041438), possibly from northern Italy. In 2020, the Assassin Antony Henry mentioned the manuscript in his notes to Layla.
While some scholars have written it off as a Renaissance-era hoax full of nonsense text, others say the pattern of the letters and words suggest the book was written in a real language or at least an invented cipher. The Voynich manuscript is an illustrated codex hand-written in the Isu. Throughout the entire VMS manuscript, it was observed that approximately 20 to 21 of the words did not change the sound value and meaning in the last 600 years. Carbon dating proved that it dates back to the 15th century, and researchers believe it was written in Central Europe. In other words, the word has not undergone any change in the past 600 years with its phonetic, meaning and spelling form. The Voynich manuscipt now sits in a rare books library at Yale University.