Voynich Manuscript
the heavily coded mystery
How was it first discovered?
It isn't clear when the manuscript was actually first discovered, but the earliest it can be predated to is 1912 when a man Wilfrid M. Voynich found the book in chest at Jesuit College. He bought from Jesuits and gave photographs to experts to have it decode the manuscript, yet no one could to it, not even to this today. It was then sold to man named H P Kranus for $24,00. Cranes donated the mysterious book to Yale University.
Why should this be considered mysterious?
The Voynich Manuscript is a 7 by 10 inch, 200 page long book written in an unknown language. The book is filled with images of plants, animals, and stars that haven't been discovered by science. No body, not even our top military decoding experts have been able to discover the message behind this book. A professor at the University of Pennsylvania has even been said to have gone insane trying to decipher the manuscript. This has lead multiple skeptics to question whether to book is a hoax but no body has given a reasonable explanation as to why someone would waste their time and materials for a book with no real meaning.
Where Did the Voynich Manuscript Come From?
Theory One
This theory involves a list of people believed to have possessed the book at some point in time. A man named Roger Bacon is believed to have written the book before he was thrown in jail somewhere between 1214-1294, a ruler named Emperor Rudolph II is believed to have bought the book sometime in the late 1500s to early 1600s, and a third man named Athanasius Kitcher is believed to have been given the book to decode it between 1601-1680. This theory is very plausible but hasn't ever been proven.
Theory Two
This isn't just any one theory but a group of theories with the same idea. The book was possibly written by an accent civilization in the new world -or any place of the world really. The reason the plant and animals have never been discovered is simply, we just haven't found them yet. Whether they went extinct or we just haven't found them in the wild.
Theory Three
Like the second one, this isn't just any one theory. But this time it's aliens instead of a wiped out civilization. According to the theory the book was brought to us by aliens. Possibly to give us more knowledge about our universe or maybe even about life o their own planet. This explains why we can't decode the manuscript as it was written in a language out of this world. Pun intended.
Extra Stuff
Research and All That Jazz
Despite the common thought that the book is a hoax, professionals believe that manuscript holds a genuine message. No one has simply been able to figure it out. Last year, a man Stephen Bax claimed to have decoded 14 characteristics in the Voynich manuscript's language but it's not really known whether he is right or not.
Citations
Baez, John. "Voynich." Math.ucr.edu. N.p., 2005. Web. <http://math.urc.edu/home/baez/voynich.html>.
Hogenboom, Melissa. "Mysterious Voynich Manuscript Has 'genuine Message'" BBC.com. N.p., June-July 2013. Web. <http://www.BBC.com/new/science-enivorment-2297>.
More
Pelling, Nick. "Top Ten Voynich Manuscript Theories Decoded." Ciphermysteries. N.p., Aug.-Sept. 2008. Web. <http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2008/08/12/top-10-voynich-manuscript-theories-decoded>.