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The Voynich Manuscript
By Gray, A. I.
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Description
This book tells that story in full: how the manuscript was made, how it traveled from Renaissance courts to Jesuit libraries, how Wilfrid Voynich rediscovered it in 1912, and how it became a global object of fascination. Drawing on codicology, radiocarbon dating, pigment analysis, and advanced imaging, the narrative separates secure facts from centuries of speculation. It shows how cryptologists, linguists, and citizen researchers have tested hypotheses, failed solutions, and built enduring knowledge about the manuscript's structure, materials, and history.
By treating the Voynich Manuscript not as a puzzle to be solved but as a life to be narrated, this book presents it as both artifact and actor: a bound volume that has generated scientific method, scholarly community, and cultural myth. Its biography illuminates how knowledge is built, checked, preserved, and shared-even when the text itself remains silent.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
240
Release Date:
2025-10-02
Publication Date:
2025-10-02
Publisher:
Independently Published
Languages:
Original:
English
ISBN10:
1923593919
ISBN13:
9781923593916
Weight:
354 g
Height:
152 cm
Width:
229 cm
Thickness:
13 cm
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