The Voynich Manuscript

Stuff You Missed in History Class

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History, Society & Culture

4.2 • 23.6K Ratings

🗓️ 13 March 2013

⏱️ 25 minutes

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The Voynich manuscript is named after Wilfrid Voynich, who acquired it in 1912 from a Jesuit library. There are many theories as to what this book from the 1400s contains, but no one knows whether it's a cypher text, a lost language or gibberish.

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0:43.7	Hello and welcome to the podcast. I'm Holly Frye, and I'm Tracy Wilson.
0:48.7	And today we're going to talk about one of those great history mysteries that's persisted for hundreds of years.
0:55.7	Which I always love those because once it just remains a mystery for X amount of time,
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1:07.7	Well, and it's one of those things that I always am a little bit annoyed at the unsolved mystery
1:12.7	because I want to know the real story.
1:14.7	I don't know that we ever came, because there will never probably be an accepted version of the real story.
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