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03143aam a2200385Ii 4500 001 82598120E91511E691A568C0DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20170202010044 008 160407t20162016ctuach b 001 0 eng d 010 $a 2016934383 020 $a 0300217234 020 $a 9780300217230 040 $d SILO 050 4 $a Z105.5.V65 $b V685 2016 082 04 $a 025.341 $2 23 245 04 $a The Voynich manuscript / $c edited by Raymond Clemens ; with an introduction by Deborah Harkness. 264 1 $a New Haven : $b Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library in association with Yale University Press, $c [2016] 300 $a xvii, 240 unnumbered pages, 66 pages : $b color illustrations, portraits, facsimiles ; $c 31 cm. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Introduction / Deborah Harkness -- Preface / Raymond Clemens -- The Voynich Manuscript -- Earliest owners / ReneÌ Zandbergen -- Voynich the Buyer / Arnold Hunt -- Physical findings / Paula Zyats [and five others] -- Cryptographic attempts / William Sherman -- Alchemical traditions /Jennifer M. Rampling -- The world's most mysterious manuscript / Raymond Clemens -- Chronology -- Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Index. 520 $a Many call the fifteenth-century codex, commonly known as the "Voynich Manuscript," the world's most mysterious book. Written in an unknown script by an unknown author, the manuscript has no clearer purpose now than when it was rediscovered in 1912 by rare books dealer Wilfrid Voynich. The manuscript appears and disappears throughout history, from the library of the Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II to a secret sale of books in 1903 by the Society of Jesus in Rome. The book's language has eluded decipherment, and its elaborate illustrations remain as baffling as they are beautiful. For the first time, this facsimile, complete with elaborate folding sections, allows readers to explore this enigma in all its stunning detail, from its one-of-a-kind "Voynichese" text to its illustrations of otherworldly plants, unfamiliar constellations, and naked women swimming though fantastical tubes and green baths. The essays that accompany the manuscript explain what we have learned about this work--from alchemical, cryptographic, forensic, and historical perspectives--but they provide few definitive answers. Instead, as New York Times best-selling author Deborah Harkness says in her introduction, the book "invites the reader to join us at the heart of the mystery." 630 00 $a Voynich manuscript. 650 0 $a Ciphers. 700 1 $a Clemens, Raymond, $d 1966- $e editor. 700 1 $a Harkness, Deborah E., $d 1965- $e writer of introductory text. 710 2 $a Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, $e publisher. 941 $a 7 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20240320010711.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20240305042542.0 952 $l PLAX964 $d 20230718092717.0 952 $l VXPE964 $d 20191210012250.0 952 $l PNAX964 $d 20170601010400.0 952 $l GDPF771 $d 20170418122303.0 952 $l CAPH522 $d 20170202010909.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=82598120E91511E691A568C0DAD10320Initiate Another SILO Locator Search