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The Voynich manuscript is a handwritten book thought to have been written between 1404-1438. Although many possible authors have been proposed, the author, script, and language remain unknown. It has been described as “the world’s most mysterious manuscript”

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There are 212 with text and drawings, 33 pages contain text only, and the last page contains the Key. The text is written in an enciphered script, and the drawings are colored in red, blue, brown, yellow, and green.

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The text is written in a language of which no other example is known to exist. It is an alphabetic script, but one of which experts believe to have any where from 19 to 28 letters. Characters that seemingly bear absolutely no relationship to any known languages.

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The Voynich Manuscript is about 6" by 9". It contains the equivalent of 246 quarto pages, but may have originally contained no less than 262 pages.

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The last section of the Manuscript contains 23 pages of text arranged in short paragraphs, each beginning with a star. The last page (the 24th of this division) contains the Key only.