"This new book, reproducing the entire Voynich Manuscript, is a godsend. “This volume sets out clearly and succinctly the current state of knowledge about this remarkable manuscript.”-Toby Burrows, Parergon the essays are valuable additions to the facsimile.”-Jesse Siragan Arlen, Comitatus “ very high-quality reproduction of the manuscript. "A mouthwatering facsimile of the incunabulum, complete with foldout pages - one origamied into six folios - and a handful of scholarly interrogations."-Peter Lewis, Minneapolis Star-Tribune All told, the new edition should continue to stoke interest in the eternally mysterious artifact."- New Criterion For the first time, Yale has reprinted the manuscript in full, in a gorgeous new edition coupled with scholarly essays on the book. The so-called 'Voynich Manuscript' is proof that, even in our increasingly demystified world, mystery is still alive. "Bibliophiles rejoice-one of the book world’s most fascinating and enduring riddles is now available for all to examine.
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"The publication by Yale University Press of an actual-size colored facsimile, with an informative set of specialist essays on the manuscript’s history, materials, cryptological puzzles, and public impact, will no doubt encourage wider engagement with its enigmas and set off a multitude of amateur as well as professional attempts to decipher it."-Eamon Duffy, New York Review of Books
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This fascimilie and the accompanying series of essays give a clear sense of the current state of knowledge on the manuscript and reveal the findings of new research.”-H.R. This beautiful facsimile will make it available for many more people to become enticed and entranced by it.”-David V. “The Voynich MS has inspired generations of enthusiasts dedicated to deciphering it. "For people who like a good historical mystery, this first authorized publication of the fifteenth- or sixteenth-century Voynich Manuscript will fascinate."-Rebecca Onion, Slate 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. fifteenth- or sixteenth-century Voynich Manuscript will fascinate.”-Rebecca Onion, Slate
“For people who like a good historical mystery, this. "For the first time, a complete reproduction The Voynich Manuscript, has been published, featuring essays exploring what is known about the book and extra-wide margins so readers can record their responses to its beguiling, beautiful strangeness."-Nina Maclaughlin, Boston Globe The first authorized copy of this mysterious, much-speculated-upon, one-of-a-kind, centuries-old puzzle
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