Holy Roman Emperor Rudolph II thought it might’ve been written in the 13th century by a famous alchemist, Roger Bacon, but the carbon dating has since disproved that theory. Records about how brain-busting this manuscript has been can be traced back centuries.
#Voynich manuscript decoded 2020 code
Hence, why so many thought-provoking texts were often written in code or under a pseudonym. You didn’t want to anger the Church in the Middle Ages, and risk getting stoned to death. Perhaps that’s why the authorship is obscured – it may be a very naughty book. So if we could understand the advice on these pages, it’d undoubtedly be deliciously strange. If you went to the doctor with haemorrhoid, he’d burn it off with a hot iron and say you must’ve skipped a prayer. Not just for men and women of the church, but everyone.
Comparatively not as exciting as being authored by aliens, but consider this: there was no divide between spirituality and health in the Middle Ages. There’s a trend of evidence that it might be some kind of medical text. Could it reveal something about the legend of Atlantis? The divinely creepy plants and critters of Hieronymous Bosch’s Garden of Good and Evil? Is it an inter-dimensional message from Carl Sagan, attempting to beam us up as we speak? We should be so lucky.īut absence of evidence, as they say, is not evidence of the absent… Our minds hold fast to logic, while our hearts leap for links to tales worthy of Indiana Jones. All of this to say: without serious study, this codex will continue to fold into its own strangeness as time goes on, further obscuring its reality, damnit. If anything, the manuscript’s drawings look stranger to us today than they would perhaps to a person alive in 1487. Even Albrecht Durer hadn’t actually seen his famous 16th century rhinoceros: It also wasn’t uncommon for medieval drawings of beasts and plants to look odd – often, they were drawn off second-hand description and with whatever pigment was available. f99r, of the pharmaceutical section / Wiki Commons
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