Why publish the Voynich manuscript, which no one could decipher – Telemundo

One of the great enigmas of human history could be revealed in a few months.

In an unusual gesture, the Beinecke Library of American University of Yale has reached an agreement with the small Editorial Siloam, based in Burgos, in northern Spain, to be cloned the enigmatic parchment Voynich, the content of which has never been revealed

Written in the fifteenth century in a coded language., the Voynich manuscript has It has been a real puzzle for linguists and historians from all latitudes, and represents a Pharaonic challenge for the mind and human knowledge. No one has been able to decipher and thus read.

Within its 244 pages, enthusiastic editors of Siloam hope to find alchemical secrets and features of the life of the time, although its unveiling is not without controversy .

for centuries this text has been preserved intact by the inability of scholars to translate the content of your pages, but mostly because not a few have seen it as a demonic book, a text can lead to your readers to dementia or death.

Considered on the other hand as a magical book that would explain the meaning of human existence in a time this text was blamed on the machinations of who found a strange Lithuanian bookseller, Wilfrid Voynich, deported by the repressors of the Tsars.

Voynich, who was also a pharmacist and spoke 18 languages, have escaped to Germany and later to Britain, where he married the daughter of a great mathematician.

the purchase of this little book of only 23 x 16 cm was made in 1914, at an auction of funds belonging to the Italian Jesuits of Nobile Collegio Mondragone Frascati.

inside, the bookseller who translated Karl Marx and Frederick Engels found astrological diagrams, drawings of plants and even naked women immersed in a long green. His writing was completely incomprehensible, because it was not written in any known language.

Now in our time, the manuscript was tested for authenticity based Carbon 14 revealed that dated from between 1404 and 1438, increasing both its value and speculation about his reason for being.

This new data rule out that its author was the Franciscan friar of the thirteenth century Roger Bacon, who was imprisoned for his passion for alchemy and magic, in times of splendor of a strict Catholic Church and the largest obscurantism level social.

Some clung to its initiatory character, others felt that it was a creation of a young Leonardo da Vinci or a scam by the orientalist Andreas Müller, who lived in the too distant XVIII century ; but there was even who saw the mysterious hand of aliens in its development.

According to the editor, Juan Jose Garcia, to the Spanish newspaper La Vanguardia, in line with this mysterious touch, a number is printed palindrome, which can be read the same from left to right of only 898 vice versa copies.

Each will be sold at a price ranging between 7,000 and 8,000 euros (7,900 and 9,100 dollars), which is not at all a trifle, but it will not be an impediment to all librarians certain large educational institutions, collectors and extravagant (and wealthy) readers are played by this book.

through an effective campaign the publisher already has sold in advance about 300 copies.

to avoid increasing order of requests for consultation of the original, Yale University made the decision to sell the rights to Siloam for playing facsimiles.

you are receiving too many requests loan from other museums and universities, has been an important factor to determine sell their rights.

“We believe that the facsimiles provide the appearance of the original for those who are interested, “said Raymond Clemens, curator of the Beinecke Library at Yale, where they also know that well better dissemination of this text that will never go out of their boxes armored achieved.

“Touching the Voynich is an outstanding experience -HA meanwhile Juan José García–. It is a book with such an aura of mystery that when you see it for the first time … you filled with an emotion that is very difficult to describe. “

Earlier, Siloam was the publisher responsible for editing 696 copies (another palindrome number) facsimile Bestiary Juan de Austria.

Perhaps with someone achieve greater dissemination decipher the meaning of the Voynich manuscript.