Newbold died before completing his study, but in 1928 his friend and colleague Roland Grubb Kent edited his work and published it posthumously under the title The Cipher of Roger Bacon. The most intrepid of these was William Romaine Newbold (1865-1926), a professor of Latin and Philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania. Cryptologists, linguists, and statisticians were intrigued, and several came to study the manuscript in hopes of solving the puzzle. Upon his return to the United States, he began promoting his mysterious acquisition, boasting to friends and colleagues about the book no one could read. This part of the story begins back in 1912, when Wilfrid Voynich purchased the manuscript from the Jesuits at Villa Mondragone near Rome. In the brief calm between my arrival in Philadelphia and the two days I spent in pre-meeting meetings, I couldn’t resist the opportunity to spend a few hours at the library, Voynich-ing (yes, that’s a verb, at least it is at my house). Meeting at the University of Pennsylvania is a homecoming of sorts for me, since my first job after completing my PhD was in the Rare Book Room at the Van Pelt Library, where I was hired to catalogue medieval and Renaissance manuscripts. For the uninitiated, take a minute to read this blogpost so you’ll be caught up.Īs I write this, I am in Philadelphia attending the annual conference of the organization I run, the Medieval Academy of America. If you read my blog, or follow me on Twitter, or have spent five minutes talking to me at a conference, you will know that I am – to put it mildly – fascinated by the Voynich Manuscript, also known as Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library MS 408 (Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut).
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so the people should buy and smoke the tobacco and stopp smoking the free home growing herbals(perhaps the church burned everything down what was green and good to smoke-could be a reason why the plants in the book today don´t exist) the church killed woman, witches and gypsies.so for me the writing is a secret gypsie style.to keep the old knowing and tradition for the next generations.in a way the church never understand.the gypsies flying under the radar and nobody knows realy something about them.my grandfather was an irish/celtic gypsie and he could heal your skin if it were burned and eas the pain just by spelling some words on it.sorry for my bad english.The Flight into Egypt, Walters Art Museum, MS W.188, f.112r
The book was written in a time when smoking pipes with herbals,mushrooms and everything that grows on mother earth was the thing to do.some women(gypsie,witches)like to smoke the pipe a lot.they said it is the best way to find out how herbals work and what is the best pipe to smoke them.they show people the future in the smoke.also they make medicine out of herbs because they now everything about plants.but the church don´t liked that.because the church started to imported tobacco.to make money. B ased on the subject matter of the drawings, the contents of the manuscript falls into six sections:ġ) botanicals containing drawings of 113 unidentified plant species Ģ) astronomical and astrological drawings including astral charts with radiating circles, suns and moons, Zodiac symbols such as fish (Pisces), a bull (Taurus), and an archer (Sagittarius), nude females emerging from pipes or chimneys, and courtly figures ģ) a biological section containing a myriad of drawings of miniature female nudes, most with swelled abdomens, immersed or wading in fluids and oddly interacting with interconnecting tubes and capsules Ĥ) an elaborate array of nine cosmological medallions, many drawn across several folded folios and depicting possible geographical forms ĥ) pharmaceutical drawings of over 100 different species of medicinal herbs and roots portrayed with jars or vessels in red, blue, or green, andĦ) continuous pages of text, possibly recipes, with star-like flowers marking each entry in the margins.
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