The Voynich manuscript : the world's most mysterious and esoteric codex
2017
Book
A UNIQUE INSIGHT INTO THE WORLD'S most mysterious manuscript. Since its creation in the first half of the 15th century, the Voynich Manuscript has fascinated and obsessed students of the esoteric, of magic and of alchemy, yet to date no one has managed to crack its code. It truly is one of a kind: the only book in existence that has been written in its particular language and alphabet - a language that no one can read. This magnificent edition presents stunning full-colour reproductions of every page of the Voynich Manuscript, along with helpful diagrams that show exactly how the folios are bound into this complex codex. Two introductory essays invite readers to interpret for themselves the clues found in the manuscript's strange and beautiful illustrations of plants, star constellations, enigmatic bathing women and cosmological diagrams. Dr Rafal T Prinke and Dr Rene Zandbergen also draw on the manuscript collections of eastern Europe, not normally accessible to English-speaking scholars, to offer the fullest explanation so far of the Voynich's incredible journey through history, while Dr Stephen Skinner explores the parallels to the Voynich Manuscript in the cryptography of Leonardo da Vinci and the Enochian angel language of John Dee.
Main title:
The Voynich manuscript : the world's most mysterious and esoteric codex / foreword by Dr Stephen Skinner ; introduction by Dr Rafał T. Prinkle, Dr René Zandbergen.
Author:
Skinner, Stephen, author of introduction, etcPrinke, Rafał T., author of introduction, etcZandbergen, Rene, author of introduction, etc
Imprint:
London : Watkins Publishing, 2017.©2017
Collation:
287 pages : colour illustrations, 27 cm.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Foreword / Dr. Stephen Skinner -- The unsolved enigma of the Voynich Manuscript / Dr. Rafał T. Prinke & Dr. René Zandbergen -- The Voynich Manuscript.
ISBN:
9781786780775 (hardback)1786780771 (hardback)
Dewey class:
091
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
326521