“The Voynich manuscript”
Book voynich manuscript is a codex.It is an illustrative handwritten book presently contains 240 pages and found lots of pages went missing. Mystery about this book is that it was written in an unknown language which doesn’t exist in the world.The writing system is unknown and most people from different times tried to reveal the secrets of the book but ended up in failure.The text pattern of the book written from left to write and most of the pages contains diagrams and pictorial representations.The pages of the book is made up of vellum which is carbon dated and found to be from 15th century (1404-1438) . In 1639 the Prague citizen Georgius Barschius sent a book to Jesuit Athanasius Kircher in Rome. He explained in a letter that he owned a mysterious book that was written in an unknown script and that was profusely illustrated with pictures of plants, stars and chemical secrets. He could not read the text, and he hoped that Kircher would be able to translate this book for him. As far as we can tell, Kircher did not succeed in this.This book later passed through various hands and it ended up in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library of Yale University. It is now known as the “Voynich Manuscript (MS)” . It is recognized as one of the main unsolved problems in the history of cryptography. It was named after Wilfrid Voynich, an antiquarian book dealer who brought it to light in 1912.The book is now preserved in the Beinecke Library since 1969, where it is officially known as MS 408.
The manuscript deals with following sections
1.Herbal section
2.Astronomical section
3.Cosmological section
4.Biological section
5.Pharmaceutical section
6.Recipes section
1.Herbal section with drawings of herbs, some of which look realistic, while others appear imaginary.Herbal pages typically contain one, in a few cases also two, page-filling pictures of herbs with some paragraphs of text that carefully avoids the drawings.

HERBAL SECTION 
HERBAL SECTION
2.Astronomical section with illustrations of Sun, Moon, stars and zodiac symbols .Astronomical pages feature drawings of the Sun or the Moon, or arrangements of stars. The twelve astronomical pages that show illustrations of the zodiac cycle.

ASTRONOMICAL SECTION 
ASTRONOMICAL SECTION
3.Cosmological section with mostly circular drawings.Cosmological pages feature geometric designs which cannot always be easily classified. Most of them are circular in nature.

COSMOLOGICAL SECTION 
COSMOLOGICAL SECTION
4.Biological section which contains some possibly anatomical drawings with small human (mostly feminine) figures populating systems of tubes transporting liquids.The most unusual section of the Voynich MS is the biological section which contains drawings of human figures in arrangements of pipes or vessels, and pools that seem like baths or clouds. Many illustrations leave the impression of representing a natural or chemical process, including representations of human organs.

BIOLOGICAL SECTION 
BIOLOGICAL SECTION 
BIOLOGICAL SECTION
5.Pharmaceutical section so called because it has drawings of containers, next to which various small parts of herbs (leaves, roots) have been aligned.

PHARMACEUTICAL SECTION 
PHARMACEUTICAL SECTION
6.Recipes section which contains over 300 short paragraphs, each accompanied by a star in the left margin.Most researchers claims these paragraphs should be a recipes.

RECIPES SECTION
The Voynich manuscript has been studied by many professional and cryptographers, including American and British code breakers from both World War I and World War II till date no one had succeed nor provided a proven explanation either.Many even claim that the book belongs to aliens. Mysterious drawings and unknown texts led many to lots of theories and predictions still all remains a hypotheses.
Reference:
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