We take such concerns very seriously and have therefore removed the story regarding this research from our website to seek further validation and allow further discussions both internally and with the journal concerned. Following media coverage, concerns have been raised about the validity of this research from academics in the fields of linguistics and medieval studies. If they are, the team will communicate the research to the media and on our University website. When a member of our academic community has a paper published in a peer-reviewed journal, the University’s Media Team will determine whether the findings are of public interest. This research was entirely the author's own work and is not affiliated with the University of Bristol, the Faculty of Arts or the Centre for Medieval Studies. Yesterday the University of Bristol published a story about research on the Voynich manuscript by an honorary research associate. [Update May 17, 2019: The University of Bristol released a statement today retracting its press release claiming one of their researchers had successfully cracked the code of the Voynich manuscript: A conference is planned to take place in Hildesheim this August for scholars to discuss the breakthrough.Photo12/UIG/Getty Images reader comments 158 with Since 1969, the manuscript has been kept in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University. It had earlier belonged to the Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II, and probably John Dee, the infamous astrologer at British Queen Elizabeth I’s court. The Voynich Manuscript came to light in 1912, after Wilfrid Voynich, a rare books dealer in London, bought the manuscript in Italy. Even the name of the manuscript’s author remains a mystery. However, without the ability to read the text, its true content has remained elusive. Scholars have used these illustrations to organise the manuscript’s content into six major sections: botanical, astronomical and astrological, biological, cosmological, pharmaceutical, and recipes. The word-structure leaves only one possible explanation: the manuscript was not composed in an Indo-European language.”Ī page from the Voynich Manuscript Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale UniversityĪdding to the mystery, the manuscript’s 240 vellum pages bear illustrations of plants, floating heads, signs of the zodiac, fantastic creatures (including dragons), castles, women bathing, and astronomical symbols. “A lot of languages were proposed, such as Latin, Czech, or amongst others Nahuatl (spoken by the Aztecs), just to name a few. “Countless decipherment attempts were made,” Hannig writes in an article in German explaining his methodology. Now, after three years of analysis, the German Egyptologist Rainer Hannig from the Roemer -und Pelizaeus Museum in Hildesheim, believes he has cracked the code to translating the work, and found the manuscript's language to be based on Hebrew. Because of the many mysteries surrounding its content, it has featured in TV shows, books, music, and even video games. Will the Voynich Manuscript, an early 15th century document kept at Yale University and known as the world’s most mysterious book, finally reveal its secrets?Īny attempts to decipher the manuscript's unique text, made up of a mixture of handwritten Latin letters, Arabic numbers, and unknown characters, have so far failed.
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