Delighted to discover that the complete Voynich Manuscript is now available on the Wikimedia Commons. The wikipedia article makes for a fascinating read on "the World's Most Mysterious Manuscript." To be incredibly brief, this possibly medieval book is in a script and language that has never been seen before nor translated yet cryptographers assert that it displays patterns that make them believe it has meaning and is not simply gibberish. Added to the mystery are a series of illustrations of plants not known to exist. My favorite theory is that it is a report by an alchemist of conversations he'd had with angels, written in their own language. Here are some of my favorite pages:
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