| iouliared | 21 Jun 2009 6:08 a.m. PST |
Someone posted on this book a while back, I did a search for it and didn't find it. I remember seeing a special on the History channel I think, about this middle ages text with colored drawings that was written in code that no one has been able to break still to this day. People seemed to think Friar Roger Bacon may have wrote it. I checked out a copy of a book about the book by Gerry Kennedy/Rob Churchill, called "The Voynich Manuscript" which I'm currently reading. The only bad part is the manuscript is 242? pages long and the book only has around 20 color plates of the original book. I thought it would be cool to get a color copy of the whole book just to look at. There is a version of it in Spanish( I just guess it is the intro only?) or you can print the whole thing off the web for free too but my printer isn't the greatest for color. Just wondering if anyone has seen the whole work and if it is worth buying or printing? Not even professional code breakers had any luck with it. If anyone has any thoughts or ideas, please share. Thanks |
Beowulf  | 21 Jun 2009 6:23 a.m. PST |
In a Cthulhu Mythos book, it was a fragment of the dreaded Necronomicon. :-) |
| Klebert L Hall | 21 Jun 2009 6:52 a.m. PST |
It's almost certainly something written by an alchemist or other loon in an ornate personal code. Codes are really hard to break w/o any external references. OTOH, it could be this: xkcd.com/593 -Kle. |
| Connard Sage | 21 Jun 2009 7:16 a.m. PST |
OTOH, it could be this: OT, but there's a certain amount of truth in this too xkcd.com/483 |
| Space Monkey | 21 Jun 2009 9:52 a.m. PST |
"In a Cthulhu Mythos book, it was a fragment of the dreaded Necronomicon."
I don't remember it having anything to do with the Necronomicon but Lovecraft mentioned it on several occasions… I'm guessing it was more famous at that time because for years I'd assumed he'd just made it up. I remember seeing an old book called Codex which was an artists attempt at creating a similar sort of 'mystery book'… it's full of strange drawings of what seems to be an alien/magical world. Should have bought a copy when I had a chance. |
| Connard Sage | 21 Jun 2009 10:01 a.m. PST |
"In a Cthulhu Mythos book, it was a fragment of the dreaded Necronomicon."
I don't remember it having anything to do with the Necronomicon but Lovecraft mentioned it on several occasions… I'm guessing it was more famous at that time because for years I'd assumed he'd just made it up. Many of the authors and literary references in Lovecraft's tales were based on fact Olaus Wormius? A 16/17C Danish scientist. An engraving of him is in the NPG link |
| Patrick R | 21 Jun 2009 11:23 a.m. PST |
The Manuscript is highly intriguing, but somewhat boring. The Codex Seraphinianus is really trippy stuff. link |
| RavenscraftCybernetics | 21 Jun 2009 3:06 p.m. PST |
Once you break the code like I did, you realise the world isnt ready for the information in it.
its been broken many times its just that we all are keeping silent.
ymmv,
R. |
| iouliared | 22 Jun 2009 8:51 a.m. PST |
;6) the Codex Seraphinianus looks cooler! |
| charared | 22 Jun 2009 4:25 p.m. PST |
It's jest an old NYC Transit guide from the early 1900's. If you think it's hard to understand, you should *SEE* the new one. "oua-9*1Qc=a=*mK;" |
