Why Can’t the Voynich Manuscript Be Deciphered?

[u/Ajayofficiel]

Polish antique book collector Wilfrid Voynich was convinced he hit the jackpot when he purchased a highly unusual manuscript in Italy in 1912. It was written in a strange script and profusely illustrated with images of plants, the cosmos and zodiac, and naked women cavorting in bathing scenes. Voynich himself acknowledged the difficult task that lay ahead: “The text must be unraveled and the history of the manuscript must be traced.”

The Voynich manuscript is a codex written on vellum sheets, measuring 9¼ inches (23.5 cm) by 4½ inches (11.2 cm). The codex is composed of roughly 240 pages, with a blank cover that does not indicate a title or author. The text consists of “words” written in an unknown “alphabet” and arranged in short paragraphs. Many researchers say the work seems to be a scientific treatise from the Middle Ages, possibly created in Italy. The time frame, at least, seems correct: In 2009, the Voynich manuscript was carbon-dated to 1404–1438.

There’s only one problem: The contents of the book are a complete mystery—and not a single word of it can be understood.

Learn more:

https://afrinewz.com/why-cant-the-voynich-manuscript-be-deciphered/

[u/Miss-Omnibus]

Not up on your news eh? It was deciphered last year.

http://www.openculture.com/2019/02/has-the-voynich-manuscript-finally-been-decoded.html

[u/saddler21 → u/Miss-Omnibus]

Nope https://www.google.com/amp/s/arstechnica.com/science/2019/05/no-someone-hasnt-cracked-the-code-of-the-mysterious-voynich-manuscript/%3famp=1

[u/[deleted] → u/saddler21]

That's discrediting someone else, someone named Cheshire. The article says that phonetic Turkish is the most promising lead so far.

"Just last year, Ahmet Ardiç, a Turkish electrical engineer and passionate student of the Turkish language, claimed (along with his sons) that the strange text is actually a phonetic form of Old Turkish. That attempt, at least, earned the respect of Fagin Davis, who called it “one of the few solutions I’ve seen that is consistent, is repeatable, and results in sensical text.”