![]() The text is in an unknown script, widely assumed to be a cypher, and the illustrations are of bewildering variety, including detailed botanical drawings, some of plants that do not seem to exist in nature, along with astronomical imagery, and others drawings assumed to be of occult or symbolic nature. Oops! Despite its appearance in an RPG and the works of Lovecraft, Colin Wilson, and others, the Voynich Manuscript is a real thing, an early 15th Century handwritten manuscript, profusely illustrated by several several different unknown artists. Nicholas Gibbs theorized about a lost index that would solve the Voynich manuscript.My introduction to the Voynich Manuscript came in the Chaosium RPG Call of Cthulhu, in which it was presented as an item that could (1) increase your knowledge of the occult, while (2) blasting your sanity. I say, the more the merrier, because why should something this intriguing be left only to the academics? This irritates historians, because it generates a swarm of inaccurate and half-baked theories that overtake the legitimate ones. The Voynich Manuscript is digitized, so now anyone with some time and enough curiosity can try to decipher it. ![]() Kelley fell to his death from his prison, and perhaps took the truth about the Voynich Manuscript to his grave. Edward Kelley ended up jailed in a tower by Rudolf for failing to create gold through alchemy. John Dee was an astrologer and mystic, so together, they might have created the book and sold it for some quick profit. According to hearsay, Rudolf II might have bought the book from a known con man, Edward Kelley. One that that is considered is that the book might be a hoax or joke. Obviously, no historian or cryptologist takes these types of ideas seriously. Saying that we should “consider all possibilities,” the theorist also muses that the book might be the diary of a stranded alien. Their reasoning? The language doesn’t exist. As is to be expected when anything goes unexplained, some people out there credit aliens. Gibbs’ theory is hardly the most far-out. Is the Voynich manuscript an alien’s diary. Apparently, he didn’t even talk to the library where the original Voynich Manuscript is kept. ![]() Historians are annoyed that Gibbs drummed up such enthusiastic headlines when he really just used already-existing research and then a vague idea about abbreviations and a missing index. Experts have agreed for quite a while that based on the illustrations, the book has something to do with health, and the fact that the figures pictured are women indicates specifically gynecology. The other part of Gibbs’ theory – that the book is about health – is probably right, but it’s hardly a new discovery. ![]() Gibbs did attempt to translate two paragraphs of the manuscript, where each character represents a Latin word, but others pointed out that the Latin doesn’t even make sense. Basing an argument on a hypothesis with no actual proof isn’t very credible. First of all, the basis of Gibbs’ “Latin abbreviation” theory is that the book must have included an index at some point, which would allow a person to see what the abbreviations stood for. At first glance, this seems like a plausible theory among dozens, but other researchers were quick to jump in. ![]()
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