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Juan José García and Pablo Molinero founded Siloé two decades ago, and since then have published around 30 facsimiles, mainly from the medieval period. Now, from next year, a facsimile edition of the work is to be made available through Spanish publisher Siloé. Last year, Stephen Bax of the University of Bedfordshire in the UK, announced that he had managed to decipher 14 symbols from it.
VOYNICH MANUSCRIPT BOOK CODE
It could be a cipher, but if it is, not even the US military’s code breakers have been able to crack it. Some have suggested a link to Sanskrit or other Eastern languages, or that it is an early example of an invented language, a kind of precursor to Esperanto. Nobody knows who wrote or illustrated it, what its purpose was, or even what language it is written in. The Voynich Manuscript was discovered in 1912 by a Lithuanian bookseller name Wilfrid Wojnicz at the Villa Mondragone, a mansion on the outskirts of Rome that once belonged to the Borghese family. The text has been dated to the first half of the 15th century, a time long before any understanding of Zipf’s law existed. The latter theory has largely been discarded, in part after it was analyzed on the basis of Zipf’s law, which states that the most frequent word in a text will occur approximately twice as often as the second most frequent, three times as often as the third most frequent, and so on. The manuscript has been identified as a guide to non-existent plants, a cosmological treatise, a contraceptive guide, and even the work of elves