Voynich Manuscript
- Date of account
- Parchment radiocarbon dated to early fifteenth century; manuscript surfaced in modern collections
- Location
- Now at Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale
- Source
- model_recalled_reference
- Record updated
- 2026-10-10
Record summary
The Voynich Manuscript is an illustrated codex written in an unidentified script, with botanical, astronomical, biological and pharmaceutical-looking images. Radiocarbon analysis places its parchment in the early fifteenth century, but the language, author, purpose and possible cipher remain unresolved. It is relevant to comparisons of medieval knowledge transmission, manuscript production and the distinction between undeciphered writing and invented language. Statistical and computational studies have proposed competing explanations, while no interpretation has achieved broad scholarly acceptance.
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