The
Voynich manuscript is a vellum manuscript featuring edible and medicinal plants (some unknown/unrecognisable), plant parts and recipies, an illustration of naked women in a bath tub, and constellations among othe rthings.
10 words of the manuscript seem to have been decoded, and they seem to be words written in italian
using simple anagrams. I would imagine that any "secret knowledge" (think entheogenic plants and reality beyond the reality that was accepted at the time (16th century Europe) would use something more elusive than simple anagrams (perhaps the reason most of the manuscript has never been decoded.)
So how's your Latin/classical Greek/medival Italian?
I think it would be an amazing thing if the community of Nexus could crack a manuscript that has eluded the brightest linguists and cryptographers for over a century
Who knows what plant secrets it might contain.
...I doubt it was just a collection of casserole and marmelade recipies written in code for fun.
And the imagery of naked ladies each holding a star (an existing star, all known at the time of the writing) makes me wonder if the author journeyed way, way beyond the Known World in his quest for knowledge.
It could turn out to contain little of interest of course, but I think it might turn out to contain many plant secrets known in the medieval times and since forgotten (and perhaps never discovered again).
If you're interested, I would suggest clicking on the anagram link in the beginning of this post to familiarise yourself with the manuscript and the one
apparently successful attempt at decoding a few words in it. Read all the pages and see what it tells you (if anything).
