I, like a lot of people, got briefly obsessed with the Voynich manuscript. It’s just interesting is all. We love a good mystery.
At some point I had the thought, “I should make my own manuscript in the same fashion, just as a fun art project!” Followed almost immediately after by, “oh, this is just someone’s fun art project, isn’t it?”
That’s fine, that’s enough. It’s still cool and has created it’s own story in history now.
Given that it was in a king’s library at one point, I think the “alchemist’s hoax for money” theory sounds pretty accurate. Court astrologers were very much jockeying for power just like anyone else at court, and convincing a king that you held a text nobody else could read that held real secrets would go a long way.
I, like a lot of people, got briefly obsessed with the Voynich manuscript. It’s just interesting is all. We love a good mystery.
At some point I had the thought, “I should make my own manuscript in the same fashion, just as a fun art project!” Followed almost immediately after by, “oh, this is just someone’s fun art project, isn’t it?”
That’s fine, that’s enough. It’s still cool and has created it’s own story in history now.
Given that it was in a king’s library at one point, I think the “alchemist’s hoax for money” theory sounds pretty accurate. Court astrologers were very much jockeying for power just like anyone else at court, and convincing a king that you held a text nobody else could read that held real secrets would go a long way.