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Sad News- Stephen Bax
As many in the Voynich Community know, Stephen Bax passed away suddenly and too soon, on the 22nd November 2017. Our father Stephen was a man with many passions and interests, but the Voynich Manuscript was one of his central focuses in recent years Movie in Flatland. We will be keeping this website (stephenbax.net) open …
The last page f116v revisited
I would like to revisit the last page of the Voynich manuscript, namely f116v Free download of Bible hymns. Here below I reproduce the proposed analysis offered by Johannes Albus at the Voynich 100 conference in Italy in May 2012. One reason for reproducing it here is that it seems to me relatively unknown 악마는 …
The Voynich: lost language theory
One possible explanation of the Voynich manuscript’s mysterious script and underlying language – a view which I find plausible – is that the script was devised for a particular community, possibly to write down an already existing language, and then that script was lost to us, with the exception of the Voynich manuscript visual studio …
TED-ED video about the Voynich manuscript
I’m pleased to say that there is a new educational video about the Voynich manuscript which I was invited to script, published by the prestigious TED-ED group: It was published only yesterday and already has 382,753 views, which is gratifying Unreal Studio. (My nephew told me that it is number 8 in the list of Trending YouTube …
A proposed identification of a word found on f77v – by Darren Worley
This is a post sent in by Darren Worley – thanks Darren. ——————– In this report I suggest a possible reading for a text label found on f77v. This follows on from a 2015 post on the same topic (here) that I now believe to be incomplete. I also speculate on what this might imply …
f68r – an eclipse in 1409?
In this post I would like to highlight some intriguing research carried out and sent to me by Andrés Eloy Martínez Rojas, president of la Sociedad Astronómica Urania (SAU) in Morelos, Mexico, relating to folio f68r. This illustration shows what he is suggesting as an interpretation: You can find a report in Spanish here from a Mexican newspaper …
A proposed identification for the f57v symbol, by Darren Worley
This post was contributed by Darren Worley – many thanks! ————— On page f57v of the Voynich manuscript, in the bottom right hand corner, an unusual symbol can be found. In this short report I suggest a possible identification and its purpose. I also describe a mid-15th century manuscript containing many other examples of this …
f68r3 – an Indian parallel? By Marco Ponzi
This post has been kindly provided by Marco Ponzi ———————- A possible Indian parallel for f68r3 The first three volumes of the monumental History of Cartography published by the University of Chicago Press can be freely downloaded in PDF format. Volume 2, Book 1, Chapters 16 (1992) was written by Joseph E. Schwartzberg and is …
New facsimile of the Voynich manuscript
I was just interviewed by a Spanish journalist about the Voynich manuscript and he alerted me to a recent article in the Spanish newspaper El Mundo 휴먼옛체 폰트 다운로드. This reports on a forthcoming facsimile of the Voynich manuscript, to be produced in Burgos in Spain, and to be sold at 8000 Euros a copy! …
Voynich conference speakers?
Story of Doo-Doo, Muhyun I have been approached with a suggestion to have a conference next year in London about the Voynich manuscript, where we could invite non-Voynich specialist to talk about their areas, for example an expert on mediaeval herbals, an expert on 15th century parchment, on art, or on astrology and astronomy 양치기들 …
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