For Anyone That Likes A Mystery,

here is one for you to solve,

it is called the Voynich manuscript, stored away in the rare-book library at Yale University is a late-medieval manuscript written in a cramped but punctilious script and illustrated with lively line drawings that have been painted over, at times crudely, with washes of color, but here is the thing,


no one has ever read it, that’s because the book—called the Voynich manuscript after the rare-book dealer who stumbled upon it a century ago—is written in an unknown script, with an alphabet that appears nowhere other than in its pages, here is the story,


the first person said to have owned the manuscript was the Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II, who reportedly was intrigued enough to buy it from its previous owner for six hundred ducats, around ninety thousand dollars in today’s money. (according to the manuscript’s radiocarbon dating, the book was already nearly two centuries old at the time of his purchase.), Rudolf was a devotee of the unusual—he collected dwarfs and stocked an entire regiment in his army with “giants”—and his fixation on alchemy and the occult made Prague under his rule a center for both mystical and proto-scientific inquiry, 


one prominent figure in Rudolf’s court was Jacobus Horcicky de Tepenec, the imperial pharmacist, keeper of the royal gardens, and the next owner of the Voynich manuscript, Tepenec had reportedly earned the emperor’s favor by curing him of some grave disease, an elixir he manufactured and sold was so in demand that he became the Renaissance equivalent of a snake-oil baron, rich enough that even the emperor turned to him for loans,

intriguing and interesting, so for a more detailed look at the mysteries to be solved have a look here at the Voynich manuscript web page, but just think in spite of all our gadgets and progress, a six-hundred-year-old book still remains unreadable and unread.