The essay attached to the manuscript expounds our understanding of this work from the perspectives of alchemy, ciphertext, forensic medicine and history, but it hardly provides a clear answer. On the contrary, as The New York Times's best-selling author Deborah harkness said in her introduction, the book "invites readers to join us and explore the mysterious center together."
The Voynich manuscript written in the last 15 or 16 century in Central Europe-named Wilfrid M. Voinic, a Polish antique bookseller, who obtained1912-is still actively discussed as his confusing pictures and deciphered texts. Almost every page of a book described as a magic or scientific text contains plants, images and a scientific picture of a local but vivid character, drawing various shades of green, brown, yellow, blue and red with bright ink.
According to the theme of the drawings, the manuscript is divided into six parts: 1) drawings containing 1 13 unknown plants; 2) Drawing of astronomy and astrology, including the radiation circle of the astrolabe, the sun and the moon, and the constellations of the zodiac, such as fish (Pisces), cattle (Taurus), archers (Sagittarius), naked women coming out of pipes or chimneys, court figures, etc. 3) A biological part, in which there are countless nude sketches of miniature women, most of whom have swollen bellies, dipped in liquid or waded through, strangely interacting with interconnected pipes and capsules; 4) an array of nine exquisite cosmic circular patterns, many of which are drawn on several folded folio papers, depicting possible geographical forms; Pharmaceutical drawings depict more than 100 different medicinal plants and roots in red, blue or green jars or containers, and 6) continuous text pages, possibly recipes, with star-shaped flowers in the blank of each item.
Like the contents of the manuscript, the ownership history of Voynich's manuscript is controversial and fills some gaps. This code belongs to the German emperor Rudolf II (emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, 1576- 16 12). He bought it for 600 gold coins and thought it was roger bacon's work. Rudolf the Great probably got this manuscript from the English astrologer john dee (1527- 1608). Dee obviously owns this manuscript and some other roger bacon manuscripts.
In addition, Dee claimed that he had 630 ducks in 1586 10, and his son pointed out that Dee had "a book ... his ass didn't have any hieroglyphs, and his father spent a lot of time on it: but I didn't hear that he could read it." According to the inscription on page 1r, which can only be seen under ultraviolet radiation, Rudolf the Great seems to have given the manuscript to Jacob Hosicki de Tepenez (1622): "Jacob de Tepenez."
1666, Johannes Marcus Malsy of Crane gave this book to Atana Xiu Kitcher (160 1- 1680). 19 12 years, Wilfrid m voynich bought this manuscript from Jesuit college in Frascati, near Rome. 1969, H.P. Klaus bought this code from Ethel Voynich, the widow of Wilfrid Voynich, and gave it to the Benec Library.