Section 4 is the Cosmological section, featuring the most impressive foldouts that appear to be circular diagrams of some cosmic nature. The third section is called the Biological section and contains mainly drawings of nude women frolicking in intricately plumbed pools. Section 2 is 26 pages of Astrological drawings lots of circular and concentric diagrams, and some signs of the zodiac. Section 1 is the largest at 130 pages, and contains detailed drawings of 113 plants and flowers that nobody has been able to identify. The book has six sections, delineated by the types of illustrations. The alphabet has between 23 and 40 distinct characters, depending on how you classify some which may be decorative versions of others or two-character combinations. There about 240 pages, most of them illustrated, the exact number depending on how you count pages that fold out into large diagrams or drawings, of which there are several. It's not a huge book, measuring about 16 by 23 cm (about 6 by 9 in), and about 5 cm (2 in) thick. Probably very soon thereafter, someone, most likely two people, took a quill pen in hand and wrote a 38,000-word book using common ink, beginning to end, using an alphabet and language that have defied all identification.
#Voynich manuscript drawings skin#
Somewhere in Europe, probably northern Italy, sometime in the early 1400s, animals were slaughtered (either sheep, calves, or goats) and their skin turned into parchment. However, the voyage of scientific exploration is always a fascinating one, and much of what we have learned is just as interesting as what we haven't.
We do have some theories, but there will be no unveiling of a glorious answer today.
According to the best information we have now, we still don't know who wrote it, what it says, or what its purpose was.
The Voynich manuscript is an unsolved mystery, at least so far. So let's get the big question out of the way right up front.
#Voynich manuscript drawings full#
Today we're going to look at the most famous undeciphered text of all time: A medieval book of science, full of beautiful illustrations and strange wisdom, and containing not a single word that anyone's been able to make heads or tails of: The Voynich manuscript.
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