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Wilfrid Voynich

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The Footnote June 27, 2026 · Beinecke Library, Yale

The Early 15th-Century Manuscript Written in a Script That No One Has Read in Six Hundred Years

The Voynich Manuscript is a 240-page illuminated codex written in an unknown script and an unknown language, with botanical, astronomical, balneological, and pharmaceutical illustrations. Radiocarbon dating of the vellum places production between 1404 and 1438. No one has produced a generally accepted translation in the six centuries since.

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