Here’s a list of the various Voynich facsimile editions that have been (or are still) actually in print and that I’ve heard about to date. Maybe you can buy them, maybe you can’t: but here’s everything I know, make of it all what you will.
Oh, and don’t get me started on Yale’s CopyFlo print, that was a purely monochrome edition that was really quite painful to work with: you basically had to simultaneously read the colour annotations in the interlinear transcription and imagine the details in the appropriate colour… which was neither effective nor useful. Thankfully that’s (very) ancient history now!
Also, if anyone passing has bought a copy of any of these apart from “Le Code Voynich”, please leave a comment here as to what you thought of it. People often ask me for a recommendation for a good Voynich facsimile edition, but don’t seem to grasp that these days review copies of anything are as rare as hen’s gold-capped false teeth… hence I don’t normally get to see any first hand.
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(1) Le Code Voynich – Jean-Claude Gawsewitch
The grand-daddy of the current generation: prefaced by a long (and fairly pointless) recap of the Voynich Manuscript’s history in French. Lots of image cropping: apparently conceived as a coffee table book rather than a facsimile edition. But very useful for Voynich researchers none the less (David Kahn was delighted by my copy, and wanted one for his own crypto library), if you happen to have bought your copy five years ago (when it was affordable – I think my last car ended up being worth less than what people currently sell copies of this for).
Binding: hardcover
Pages: 240 pages
Editeur : JC Gawsewitch Editeur (27 octobre 2005)
Collection : BEAU LIV LUX
Language: French
ISBN-10: 2350130223
ISBN-13: 978-2350130224
Size: 30.8cm x 26.8cm x 2.4cm
Price: out of print, 7 used copies currently on sale from 299 euros upwards (!!!)
(2) Le Voynich
Broché : 240 pages couleur.
Editeur : Editions HADES
Langue : Français
ISBN-13 : 9791092128031
http://www.hadeseditions.com/Le-Voynich
Price: 49,99 €, now reduced to 29,99 € (plus postage).
(3) VOYNICHŮV RUKOPIS
Publisher: CAD PRESS
ISBN 978-80-88969-60-0 / EAN 9788088969600
Binding: hardcover.
Size: 24cm x 17cm, 448 pages (in Czech, I believe), including a 272-page complete facsimile..
http://www.cadpress.sk/voynichuv_rukopis.htm
Price: 29,00 € reduced to 27,00 € (plus postage).
(4) The Voynich Manuscript – A Facsimile
Editor: David Durand
Publisher: Lulu (print-on-demand)
Pages: 251
Size: 21.59cm wide x 27.94cm tall
Binding: spiral bound
http://www.lulu.com/gb/en/shop/david-durand/the-voynich-manuscript-a-facsimile/paperback/product-20220326.html
Price: £43.66 (plus postage).
(5) El Manuscrito Voynich = The Voynich Manuscript
David G. Walker
Hardcover: 269 pages
Publisher: Editorial Sirio (31 Aug 2013)
Language: Spanish
ISBN-10: 8478089004
ISBN-13: 978-8478089000
Product Dimensions: 1.8cm x 17.8cm x 24.8cm
£26.21 RRP, reduced to £23.20 (plus postage).
(6) The Voynich Manuscript Illustrated: “One of the most mysterious books in the World” [Paperback]
Paperback: 212 pages
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform (4 Jan 2013)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1481076701
ISBN-13: 978-1481076708
Product Dimensions: 1.4 x 15 x 22.6 cm
Price: £15.61 + postage on Amazon (RRP £18.74)
Feedback: three reviews on Amazon, all of them bad.
(7) The Voynich Manuscript Project
$199 buys you a classy-looking reproduction of the Voynich Manuscript from Ambush Printing. Or, alternatively, you can buy an 18″ x 24″ print of the nine-rosette foldout sexfolio on vellum quality paper for $24.99: or a 24″ x 36″ print of the nine-rosette foldout for $39.99.
208 pages printed from hi-res scans, and also folded just like the original (“includes 5 double-folio, 3 triple-folio, 1 quadruple-folio, and one giant six page folio”). Printed on vellum-style paper for added realism, hand stitched together, and then “bound with a single piece of handpicked leather to closely match the original Voynich cover”.
http://ambushprinting.squarespace.com/thevoynichmanuscriptproject/
Nick, I’m waiting for your sequel. I hope I live long enough to be able to buy the set directly from you, autographed and all.
🙂
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You all might be interested in knowing that the Voynich will be among the manuscripts on view at an exhibition organized by the Folger Library, Washington, DC, November 2014:
http://www.folger.edu/woSummary.cfm?woid=877
Best,
E. A.
According to an article in the Guardian, the publishers who won the right to make a facsimile copy us/are *”Siloe”*.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/aug/21/tiny-spanish-publisher-wins-rights-voynich-manuscript-book-no-one-can-read
It costs about USD 10,000 ((7,000€ – 10,000€) according to the Zereis facsimile page
https://www facsimiles.com/facsimiles/voynich-manuscript
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Then you have the facsimile issued by *’Manuscriptum’* publishers. Its relationship to the Siloe/Burgos facsimile is a bit vague.
Announcing display of the Manuscriptum(?) facsimile in Poland, it is said that during the premiere the facsimile was “taken under the microscope by three outstanding experts on the subject” [of the Voynich manuscript].
1. – Professor Tomasz Jasiński – from the University of Adam Mickiewicz in Poznań (Poland); 2.- Marek Grajek – a mathematician, … consultant in the field of cryptology applications in financial trading and capital markets and author of books on the history of cryptology; 3,- PostDoc Rafał T. Prinke – a genealogist.
https://manuscriptum.eu/voynich-manuscript
Costing just USD3,000, a copy was bought by “Odd_Honey_WV” who reviewed it for reddit.
b’ https://www.reddit.com/r/voynich/comments/xv1xbt/i_purchased_a_high_quality_facsimile_from/
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Another has been cobbled together by screen-printing company called ‘Ambush’, Sells via Amazon for USD 299. I can’t see the point and the site looks a bit fly-by-night.
https://www.apmanuscripts.com/voynich/voynich-manuscript-reproduction?srsltid=AfmBOoqg0ujsYP4wKpP0E7yJADaIWy4CKy1HUygl9ZMJO3DN8HYzJEA1
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One interesting thing. The Burgos/Siloe facsimile includes an essay by Alain Touwaide which is not in the Yale version.
I’d dearly love to read that essay. Anyone who’d like to do their daily good deed by emailing me a copy is most welcome to:
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