MUSE LOG: The Voynich Manuscript    
 The Voynich Manuscript4 comments
picture23 Oct 2003 @ 12:24, by Quidnovi

An ancient text written in a language no one understands and displaying unfamiliar constellations, the mysterious 'Voynich Manuscript' intrigues astronomers and code breakers alike. The 200-page tome is housed at the Yale library.

The manuscript is written entirely in a mysterious, unknown alphabet that has defied all attempts at translation. It is written in a language of which no other example is known to exist. It is an alphabetic script, but of an alphabet variously reckoned to have from nineteen to twenty-eight letters, none of which bear any relationship to any English or European letter system.


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26 Oct 2003 @ 11:19 by koravya : Rather fascinating
Certainly quite a lovely little set of characters/\/\/\  

26 Oct 2003 @ 12:35 by swan : I would like to see it in person.
The sunflower page is gorgeous.  

28 Oct 2003 @ 05:04 by shawa : Fascinating is the word...
:-) Maybe it´s a secret esoteric language. I seem to remember that the Rosicrucians have several.
"In Europe the transcendental alchemists - mystics and philosophers - tried to transmute the basic elements of human nature into the more noble virtues, and to bring to manifestation within the individual the wisdom of the divine. Some well-known alchemists were also Rosicrucians: Albertus Magnus, ROGER BACON (my emphasis), Paracelsus, Cagliostro, Nicholas Flamel and Robert Fludd."  

30 Oct 2003 @ 03:46 by swan : The Rosicrucians had
several secret documents, 'The Confessio', 'The Chemical Wedding of Christian Rosencreutz', which you can read as a story but have hidden esoteric meaning. The writing in the 'Voynich Manuscript', could also be an angelic script.  

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