Voynich manuscript download books, sacred, spiritual. The voynich manuscript is a mysterious medieval manuscript written in the early 15th century. The linguist jacques guy once suggested that the voynich manuscript text could be some littleknown natural language, written in the plain with an invented alphabet. From ancient unreadable texts to the 60year fantasy world of a mentally ill recluse, these are the 5 most mysterious books of all time. Longtime friends of will recognize that i have a weakness for the more peculiar works and i post them here regardless of their spiritual attributes in admiration of human creativity.
The voynich manuscipt now sits in a rare books library at yale university. He suggested chinese in jest, but later comparison of word length statistics with vietnamese and chinese made him view that hypothesis seriously. Today i have two of these goodies for you and if you are into this, you will not be disappointed. Guy, in which he analyzes folios 79v and 80r as to letter frequency in terms of both word and line placement, and cooccurrence, with a tentative phonetic categorization of letters into vowels and consonants using sukhotins. With james gillogly, founder of the voynich manuscript mailing list in 1991. There are many hypothesis about the possible content of the voynich manuscript. Comments 3 share in 1987 leo levitov published solution of the voynich manuscript. As table 3 with the definition of basic eva shows, this method allows an accurate representation of the text using the eva true type font. Guy lists it correctly as glasgow university ferguson ms 192, but the website address he gave is now out of date.
A liturgical manual for the endura rite of the cathari heresy, the cult of isis. Carbon dating proved that it dates back to the 15th century, and researchers believe it was written in central europe. Voynich ms text analysis transliteration of the text. All of them can be roughly divided into 3 categories 7. The first is the previously mentioned capitalisation rule introduced already by jacques guy. Analysis of letter frequency distribution in the voynich. The 5 most mysterious books of all time answers with joe. To recap, jacques guy originally proposed chinese as a kind of linguistic foumerde joke on the voynich research community, only to be unhappily surprised when people started taking it seriously enough to dig up evidence why he might actually have been right. Jim comegys believes that the vms was a medical book written in nahuatl the language of the aztec possibly by francisco hernandez, and has written a book describing his claim.