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A page of the Voynich Manuscript, housed at Yale.
It’s a hundreds-of-years-old mystery and an xkcd comic: the Voynich Manuscript. (And I forgot about xkcd’s take on it until someone reminded us of it on Twitter earlier today). Maybe it’s a secret book of knowledge. Maybe it’s a cypher text. Maybe it’s just gibberish. No one knows.
Here’s Yale’s awesome page on the manuscript.
This one was Holly’s choice, and here’s her research:
- Voynich Manuscript – Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
- Beinecke Library Descriptive Catalog Entry
- Materials Analysis of the Voynich Manuscript
- The Voynich Manuscript
- 10 of the World’s Biggest Unsolved Mysteries – The Voynich Manuscript
- ‘Prophet of God’ claims mysterious manuscript’s code has been cracked
- What We Know About the Voynich Manuscript
- Scientific Method Man
Our listener mail is from Emily, who asks a question about the Okichi episode that Holly and Sarah recorded, and why they didn’t mention “Madama Butterfly.” Holly answers.
A link to today’s episode: The Voynich Manuscript.
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