Instead, as New York Times best-selling author Deborah Harkness says in her introduction, the book “invites the reader to join us at the heart of the mystery.” 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 “Voynichese” text to its illustrations of otherworldly plants, unfamiliar constellations, and naked women swimming though fantastical tubes and green baths. It would print up into a legible book, if you wished to use a color inkjet printer to make a hard copy and have it bound. The images are full color and fairly high resolution.
#COPY OF THE VOYNICH MANUSCRIPT PDF#
The book’s language has eluded decipherment, and its elaborate illustrations remain as baffling as they are beautiful. Theres a single PDF of the Voynich Manuscript. 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 “Voynich Manuscript,” the world’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. Edited by Raymond Clemens with an Introduction by Deborah Harkness