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An abiding fascination with the Voynich Manuscriptĭeep inside the British Museum, there is a shelf dedicated to antiquarian book dealer Wilfred Voynich. This week, The Times of Israel spoke with Hebrew-language, medieval and computer science scholars who broke down the so-called decryption breakthrough.

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Kondrak and Hauer’s computer-driven translation only turned up a few individual Hebrew words such as “farmer,” “light,” “air” and “fire,” and a single, long-awaited translated full sentence: “She made recommendations to the priest, man of the house and me and people.”Īs noted by the authors in their article, “According to a native speaker of the language, this is not quite a coherent sentence.” (Beinecke Library)īut with all the media hype, preliminary results appear less than sensational. Paul Tobin and Ig Guara’s ‘Marvel Adventures: Black Widow and The Avengers, #18,’ featuring the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library and Beinecke MS 408 (the Voynich Manuscript).

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This week, international press pounced on the publication of a fresh theory that may explain the manuscript’s puzzling provenance, brought to the world by the university labs which developed the software that beat professional players at the Texas hold ’em poker game. It has also birthed a whole genre, with hundreds of fictional works an eerily layered a cappella vocal octet written by Yale School of Music graduate Stephen Gorbo an online memory game using selected illustrations and a citation in the comic book, “Marvel Adventures: Black Widow and The Avengers, #18,” which features a scene in which the manuscript goes missing from the Yale library. The mystery of the Voynich Manuscript has spawned dozens of attempts to break the code, including by the team of cryptographers from Britain’s Bletchley Park that broke the Nazis’ Enigma codes. (Raymond Clemens, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library) Lisa Fagin Davis, executive director of the Medieval Academy of America, reading the Voynich manuscript in 2016.

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