THE VOYNICH MANUSCRIPT: LIMITED AND NUMBERED FACSIMILAR EDITION
An emperor, a suspected con man, and a magician are the only clues to the origins of the Voynich Manuscript.
Emperor Rudolf II of Habsburg, a lover of palmistry, the dark sciences, and the eccentric, is said to have acquired the strange manual in 1580 in exchange for 600 gold ducats. John Dee, a magician who claimed to be in constant communication with angels through magic stones, and Edward Kelley, an alchemist and occult researcher with a suspicious reputation and something of a charlatan, were the ones who negotiated the important sale of one of the strangest, if not the strangest, codices, whose meaning remains a mystery.
This document is known to date back to the 15th century, to be written in a language that no one has been able to decipher, and to contain a series of enigmatic images and illustrations.
Star signs, nonexistent flowers and plants, esoteric images, and nudes complete a work as attractive as it is mysterious, which captured the attention of a bookseller interested in the unusual and from whom it takes the name by which it is known today.
Voynich acquired it in 1912, convinced that its indecipherable contents concealed the principles of a future revolution in modern science. He discovered it in the Franciscan convent of Mondragone, Italy. From there, it traveled to New York, where the antiquarian Hans Peter Kraus acquired it from his heirs for $24,500, intending to resell it. He was unsuccessful and eventually donated it to Yale University in the mid-1960s.
Its authorship is unknown. It also has no title and no chapter. Although it lacks a date, carbon-14 analysis places it between approximately 1404 and 1434.
Six centuries later, it has not been possible to identify the language used by the anonymous author. Nor is its true meaning known. Some point to the cosmos, others to botany or obscure sciences. Some skeptics attribute it to the simple notebook of a madman, but the truth is that its indecipherable nature has attracted the attention of historians, cryptographers, leading experts in ancient languages, and even NASA scientists.
Our mission is to bring this compendium of secrets to lovers of works that transgress the unusual, as it is an enigma that no technical advance has been able to solve in 600 years.
There has only been one man who managed to get close enough to such a studied codex: Indiana Jones, although his character was fictional and the film was pure fantasy.
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