The Manuscript

This is Love

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Personal Journals, Society & Culture

4.8 • 9.4K Ratings

🗓️ 20 November 2024

⏱️ 44 minutes

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“After more than a hundred years of hard work from some of the greatest cryptological and linguistic minds on the planet, we still don’t quite know what this object is. There’s really nothing like it in the world.” Say hello on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Follow the show and review us on Apple Podcasts. Want to listen to This is Love ad-free? Sign up for Criminal Plus – you’ll get to listen to This is Love, Criminal, and Phoebe Reads a Mystery without any ads. Plus, you’ll get behind-the-scenes bonus episodes of Criminal and other exclusive benefits. Learn more and sign up here. We also make Criminal and Phoebe Reads a Mystery. Artwork by Julienne Alexander. Check out our online shop. Episode transcripts are posted on our website. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:28.7	I first laid eyes on this manuscript in a class at Yale in the fall of 1988 when I was
1:36.2	beginning my PhD studies there.
1:39.6	And as part of the class, the instructor brought out the Voynich manuscript to show us mostly as an example of just something totally bizarre and inexplicable.
1:57.1	Medievalist and manuscript expert, Lisa Fagan Davis.
2:13.6	And as soon as I laid eyes on it, I was totally enchanted by it and really felt that magic that comes from encountering something that's so old, but that has this mysterious aura about it.
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