I found out today that Slovakian publisher CAD Press late last year brought out a new facsimile edition of the Voynich Manuscript, preceded by 176 pages reviewing its history, apparent contents, mad theories, etc. Of course, reading Czech helps, though it contains plenty of other pictures (i.e. quite apart from Voynich imagery) should you wish to buy it as an unreadable coffee table book. 😉
As far as I can tell, the author of the preface (Dr. Jitka Lenková, I believe?) seems to be hopeful that the manuscript’s origin will ultimately turn out to be somewhere in Bohemia. Well, I guess a bit of nationalist spin rarely goes amiss with your home audience: but such rhetoric would be a bit nicer if it were accompanied by a bit of, errrm, factuality to back it up, hmmm?
And no, I don’t really think the Voynich has anything to do with Jan z Lazu, about whom I’ve blogged a fair few times. Sorry again!
Exactly Nick. Bad book. Bad porchase. The book is about nothing. Lenková= ufo mystery. Does no know anything.
I think you’ve inadvertently hit upon the secret behind the original Voynich manuscript – it’s an unreadable coffee table book. 😉
David: shhhh, not so loud! 😉
Hi Nick. Otherwise your question. John of Lazu. The manuscript of John of Lazu writes. On many pages.
Well, the book came from Prague… Seems like plain Latin was not enough to describe the language the author was using… May be if he/she had decided to use Cyrillic instead of Latin with special symbols the book would have been readable… It is the Catholic church fault 🙂