Using digital paleographic methodologies including the Archetype (DigiPal) application and other annotation tools, this project will revisit the paleographic analyses of the Voynich glyphs to propose answers to some of these questions and discuss how these answers open avenues for further research. How many letterforms are there? How many scribes can be identified? Are there ligatures, majuscules, abbreviations, and other scribal conventions? These questions have never been satisfactorily answered.
“Voynichologists” disagree as to some of the most important and basic questions about the manuscript.
#THE VOYNICH MANUSCRIPT HOW TO#
But we still don’t know how to read it, in spite of new theories flying across the internet on a near-weekly basis. Some things we know: the invented script is comprised of carefully-written glyphs without precedent or obvious model forensic material evidence has determined that the parchment, ink, and pigments date from the early 15th century the provenance trail is nearly unbroken from the seventeenth century to today. For centuries, bibliophiles, linguists, codicologists, art historians, and amateur cryptologists have pored over the manuscript, examining it from every angle, debating every wormhole, arguing over every stain and crease. Described by some as the most mysterious document in the world, it would appear we are no closer now to deciphering the Voynich Manuscript now than our ancestors were when it first came to light in the early-1600s. It can be safely claimed that there is no medieval script that has been seen, analyzed, and debated more than that of the mysterious and as-yet-unread Voynich Manuscript (Beinecke MS 408).
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