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What Is the Voynich Manuscript? The Mystery Explained | Lisa Fagin Davis
What is the Voynich Manuscript — and why, more than 600 years after it was created, has nobody been able to decipher it?In this episode, I speak with Dr Lisa Fagin Davis, a medieval manuscript specialist and palaeographer who has spent years studying the Voynich Manuscript and has examined the original at Yale University on numerous occasions.The manuscript contains 232 pages, or 116 folios, filled with an unknown system of writing alongside strange botanical drawings, astronomical and astrological diagrams, bathing scenes and images that may relate to medicine or recipes. The parchment has…
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