408, known to many as “the most mysterious manuscript in the world” – is its handwritten text. Here’s the opening paragraph, which does use a good narrative structure, the ABT (and, but therefore) template (championed by Randy Olson):įor medievalists or anyone with more than a passing interest, the most unusual element of the Voynich manuscript – Beinecke Ms. Now read Nicholas Gibbs’s first hand account of solving this mystery. You can feel Benito’s excitement in that tweet! This is so exciting, there’s no time for punctuation marks! Here we have a century old mystery, solved. (I)t was more or less clear what the Voynich manuscript is: a reference book of selected remedies lifted from the standard treatises of the medieval period, an instruction manual for the health and wellbeing of the more well to do women in society, which was quite possibly tailored to a single individual.īut what I want to talk about is not the solution, but about writing style and communication. The book has, apparently, finally yielded to insightful scholarship and has been decoded. Debate raged about whether it was coded or just an unreadable hoax. It’s routinely described with phrases like, “the world’s most mysterious book.” For more than a century, nobody could read it or make heads nor tails about what it was about. The Voynich manuscript is a potentially obsession creating item.
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