Theories abound about who wrote it and what it means.įor a long time, it was believed to be the work of 13th century English Franciscan friar Roger Bacon whose interest in alchemy and magic landed him in jail.īut that theory was discarded when the manuscript was carbon dated and found to have originated between 14. The manuscript is named after antiquarian Wilfrid Voynich who bought it in about 1912 from a collection of books belonging to the Jesuits in Italy, and eventually propelled it into the public eye. “It also enables libraries and museums to have a copy for instructional purposes and we will use the facsimile ourselves to show the manuscript outside of the library to students or others who might be interested.” “We thought that the facsimile would provide the look and feel of the original for those who were interested,” he said. Raymond Clemens, curator at the Beinecke library, said Yale decided to have facsimiles done because of the many people who want to consult the fragile manuscript. Nearly 300 people have already put in pre-orders. The publishing house plans to sell the facsimiles for €7,000 to €8,000 (£6,000 to £6,900) apiece. The company always publishes 898 replicas of each work it clones – a number which is a palindrome – after the success of its first facsimile of which they made 696 copies. Siloe, which specialises in making facsimiles of old manuscripts, has bought the rights to make 898 exact replicas of the Voynich – so faithful that every stain, hole, sewn-up tear in the parchment will be reproduced.
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Photograph: Universal History Archive via Getty Images Images and text from the Voynich manuscript.
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