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A NEW YORK TIMES best-selling author is set to tell the extraordinary story of the 14th-century Voynich Manuscript in a new movie produced by the National Geographic Channel.
The Voynich Manuscript, pictured, is one of the most mysterious and baffling documents ever discovered. This book, written in an unknown script, is thought to have been the work of a single person from the 15th century.
The mysterious book, found in a library in Switzerland in 1912, was written in an unknown script and is thought to have been the work of a single person from the 15th century.
"The Voynich Manuscript is one of the most mysterious and baffling documents ever discovered. It defies all analysis," Stephen D’Agostino, author of The Encyclopedia of Magic, says.
He said the new movie would provide a new perspective on one of the world’s great enigmas.
"The Voynich Manuscript is one of the most mysterious and baffling documents ever discovered. It defies all analysis," Stephen D’Agostino, author of The Encyclopedia of Magic, says.
It is thought the writer was a physician from Bohemia in the 15th century and is often called the first illustrated manuscript.
A NEW YORK TIMES best-selling author is set to tell the extraordinary story of the 14th-century Voynich Manuscript in a new movie produced by the National Geographic Channel.
The Voynich Manuscript, pictured, is one of the most mysterious and baffling documents ever discovered. This book, written in an unknown script, is thought to have been the work of a single person from the 15th century.
The mysterious book, found in a library in Switzerland in 1912, was written in an unknown script and is thought to have been the work of a single person from the 15th century.
"The Voynich Manuscript is one of the most mysterious and baffling documents ever discovered. It defies all analysis," Stephen D’Agostino, author of The Encyclopedia of Magic, says.
He said the new movie would provide a new perspective on one of the world’s great enigmas.
"The Voynich Manuscript is one of the most mysterious and baffling documents ever discovered. It defies all analysis," Stephen D’Agostino, author of The Encyclopedia of Magic, says.
It is thought the writer was a physician from Bohemia in the 15th century and is often called the first illustrated manuscript.
This was one of the world’s most sophisticated manuscripts - a code which only a few people in the world could decode.
So when in 1912 a book, written in a mysterious script, was discovered it took a team of experts from Oxford University to figure out what it said.
Now the book, now housed in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University, will be revealed to a wider audience in the new movie The Voynich Manuscript.
The film, by the National Geographic Channel, is produced by the Emmy-winning Robert K. King and directed by Robert M. Sargent.
D'Agostino said the new movie would provide a new perspective on one of the world's great enigmas.
"The Voynich Manuscript is one of the most mysterious and baffling documents ever discovered. It defies all analysis," Stephen D'Agostino, author of The Encyclopedia of Magic, says.
D'Agostino says the book was the first to be illustrated in the world, more than 1000 years before Leonardo da Vinci's first notebooks.
"There is no record of where it came from, and we still don't know who it was written for. There are no known witnesses to the book’s existence."
So what does the book say?
It contains more than 600 unique illustrations of plants and animals, but there is one picture in particular which has kept the book so mysterious.
It is a drawing of seven intertwined female heads, that is unlike any other artwork to have ever been made.
This engraving of the female head image from the Voynich Manuscript was published in a book about the mysterious document by the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University in 2004.
It is thought this image was produced by a physician and botanist who was able to decode an early form of Latin in the book.
It is possible that one of the doctors of the time believed this image was of the Virgin Mary, as the plant the woman is holding in her hand is the yew plant.
This is because of a passage which says the book is the secret writings of those who know the "secrets of the sacred yew".
But no one could figure out what was written about the yew. And it is thought one of these medical experts may have decoded the image and possibly written down the answer.
The book also says "a person can be cured of the Evil Eye by wearing a yew bough."
This was translated in the 1930s as “a person who causes harm by sorcery can be cured by having their eye bandaged".
"The book says it is written in a language only the creator could understand. But even if we could read this script, we still couldn’t say for sure that we were understanding exactly what was written," said Robert M. King.
"There is no record of where it came from, and we still don't know who it was written for. There are no known witnesses to the book’s existence.”
So what did this enigmatic book have to do with the discovery of America?
The book is thought to be a cipher because it was written in a strange script, and this script may have been created by one of the men who discovered America.
"The Voynich Manuscript is one of the most mysterious and baffling documents ever discovered. It defies all analysis," Stephen D’Agostino, author of The Encyclopedia of Magic, says.
It is thought the writer was a physician from Bohemia in the 15th century and is often called the first illustrated manuscript.
The Voynich Manuscript, pictured, is one of the most mysterious and baffling documents ever discovered. This book, written in an unknown script, is thought to have been the work of a single person from the 15th century.
"The Voynich Manuscript is one of the most mysterious and baffling documents ever discovered. It defies all analysis," Stephen D’Agostino, author of The Encyclopedia of Magic, says.
It is thought the writer was a physician from Bohemia in the 15th century and is often called the first illustrated manuscript.
The Voynich Manuscript, pictured, is one of the most mysterious and baffling documents ever discovered. This book, written in an unknown script, is thought to have been the work of a single person from the 15th century.
"The Voynich Manuscript is one of the most mysterious and baffling documents ever discovered. It defies all analysis," Stephen D’Agostino, author of The Encyclopedia of Magic, says.
It is thought the writer was a physician from Bohemia in the 15th century and is often called the first illustrated manuscript.
The Voynich Manuscript, pictured, is one of the most mysterious and baffling documents ever discovered. This book, written in an unknown script, is thought to have been the work of a single person from the 15th century.
"The Voynich Manuscript is one of the most mysterious and baffling documents ever discovered. It defies all analysis," Stephen D’Agostino, author of The Encyclopedia of Magic, says.
The book was written in an unknown script, and the first clue to what this strange script says has only recently been discovered.
The name has now been decoded and it turns out the creator of this book was a man called Johannes Trithemius, a 14th-century German monk, who collected a lot of information about the occult.
Trithemius was sent a book called The Book of Thoth by the Egyptian magician and mathematician Theodor Schwann in the 16th century.
This book contained the writings of Hermes Trismegistus, who was the founder of Hermeticism, a philosophy which blended the teachings of many ancient Egyptians with Greek, Roman, and Persian beliefs.
The Voynich Manuscript, pictured, is one of the most mysterious and baffling documents ever discovered. This book, written in an unknown script, is thought to have been the work of a single person from the 15th century.
In the Book of Thoth, there is a manuscript called The Hermetic Book by Hermes Trismegistus, and this is the source of the mysterious script which made the Voynich Manuscript possible.
This book describes a complex cipher which only the creator could understand.
The book shows how the first two and half pages of the Voynich Manuscript were written in the "Hermetic Book" ciphers.
It is thought the book is the key to the Voynich Manuscript.
D’Agostino said there are around 3,
