336pp.Please note: this is heavy book (approx 1.9 Kg). Mint condition.Yale University Press,2016.First UK edition.Large format pictorial hardback in mint condition, no Dj cover as book is new and sealed. Instead, as New York Times best-selling author Deborah Harkness says in her introduction, the book invites the reader to join us at the heart of the mystery.'. The essays that accompany the manuscript explain what we have learned about this work from alchemical, cryptographic, forensic, and historical perspectives but they provide few definitive answers. For the first time, this facsimile, complete with elaborate folding sections, allows readers to explore this enigma in all its stunning detail, from its one-of-a-kind Voynichese text to its illustrations of otherworldly plants, unfamiliar constellations, and naked women swimming though fantastical tubes and green baths. The book s language has eluded decipherment, and its elaborate illustrations remain as baffling as they are beautiful.

The manuscript appears and disappears throughout history, from the library of the Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II to a secret sale of books in 1903 by the Society of Jesus in Rome. Written in an unknown script by an unknown author, the manuscript has no clearer purpose now than when it was rediscovered in 1912 by rare books dealer Wilfrid Voynich. 'Many call the fifteenth-century codex, commonly known as the Voynich Manuscript, the world s most mysterious book. Absolutely NEW book housed in a fine glassine dustjacket. Richly illustrated with gorgeously produced full-clour facsimiles.

Voynich manuscript