The Voynich Manuscript
- Date of account
- Palaeographically dated to the early fifteenth century; surfaced publicly in 1912
- Location
- Now at Yale University, New Haven; earlier European provenance
- Source
- model_recalled_reference
- Record updated
- 2026-10-10
Record summary
The Voynich Manuscript is an illustrated codex written in an undeciphered script, with botanical, astronomical, biological and pharmaceutical-looking imagery. Radiocarbon dating places its parchment in the early fifteenth century, while ink and codicological research address later additions and production. Its language, purpose and authorship remain unresolved, and many proposed decipherments have failed independent testing. The manuscript is valuable for comparing undeciphered texts, manuscript transmission and pattern-seeking. It is a real historical artefact, but its images do not establish extraterrestrial, magical or otherwise paranormal origins.
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