The Voynich Manuscript

I like to think that when the book is finally translated, it will turn out to be the 15th century equivalent of an end-user license agreement.

I appreciate an actual documentary that contains verifiable facts. Most documentaries on the Voynich manuscript are of the form "Is it aliens? Probably not. But if it's not aliens, could it be a recipe book? Probably not. But if it's not aliens or a recipe book, could it be magic? Probably not, but if it's not..." I'm so glad TV is dying.

In conclusion, “The Voynich Manuscript” is the secret book where doctors learn their handwriting from. 🤷‍♀️

I translated it. "We've been trying to reach you about your car's extended warranty."

Came for the mystery, stayed for the history.

This is so much more interesting than the “It was Aliens” commentary that plagues the internet.

Historians: “This is probably extremely important, we must decipher this” The Writer: “Yo Jakobs they’ll be puzzling over this nonsense for decades lmao”

Strangely, I'm more interested in how someone might have coded a text that even computers can't decipher than to know the information it might contain.

My first thought was "oh god, not another voynich documentary" but having watched, this is definitely NOT just another voynich documentary!! Really good work, well done!!

Minor correction folks. The image comparison I gave of the manuscript to medieval beakers is wrong. The actual comparison is with a medieval cannon. I don't know how I got this one wrong, its clearly described as such in the source I used. Thanks to redditor Marc_op for catching this.

It's amazing that compared with how long television has been around that YouTube in such a short time blows away television in quality of content

As someone who knows a little bit about wild plants and herbs, the 1st thing I noticed is that only a few of the plants seem to be real ones. But in the last several videos On Voynich that I have looked at, including the one by the Turkish father and son who claim to have identified 600 words, I had a good look at a bunch of the words on a bunch of pages, and noticed one thing that agrees with one of their "disoveries"?:. This is a military cypher where only the vertical first letters of each line contains the message: What I noticed is about 60 % of the words on many pages look like a consonant at the beginning followed by an italic lower case (a) then the double (ll) and then an (o) and then an (m) or (n). So perhaps most of the manuscript is imaginary nonsense just designed to provide meaningful looking filler, and the only things that are important are the 1st letters of each line in vertical formation. This would explain why often the same "word" is repeated ad nauseum throughout the manuscript. When a person is making up nonsense they run out of ideas, and since no one will ever figure it out anyway, the perpetrator of said hoax , just falls into a rut, and runs out of imaginary garbage to generate. Otherwise who would write very neatly, gollam gollam gollam collar gollam voca qollam gollam pallom. There is no way to convey any meaning by just repeating the same word over and over unless, it was Jack Nicholson with a bad case of writer's block HAVING A DULL DAY ! SKEPTICS look at the pages. I say it may have been a military cypher pretending to be an old herbal. There is nothing to decipher but the 1st letters vertically? maybe?

This is just how people used to troll other people 500 years ago.

I’ve learned more about the manuscript in this video than any of the tv documentaries I’ve seen on it. Well put together and easy to follow!!

Your deep dive into the owners of the manuscript served as a fantastic prequel to this video.

Am totally absorbed in this documentary and just checked how much longer it goes on for, thinking it must be nearly over as it's covered so much.... I'm only 20 mins in of a 70 minute doc.... Sheer bliss!!!! Thanks for this

It's a great relief to see such a well- made documentary, without histrionics, and with music which doesn't get in the way. It seems to me that the subject is usually treated by conspiracy theorists. For me, the biggest puzzle is the sheer size of the document. Whether it's in code, or in an artificial language, or is just a joke, this puzzle remains. Has anyone figured out what the plants are, and where they might have been available when the text was written? How many characters are there in the alphabet?

Fantastic Documentary. The level of work that went into this is astounding, and the production is phenomenal. I hope you don't end up with copyright issues like before, it would be a shame to have this level of work go to waste. Thank you for all the work, Charles. Look forward to more!

Thoroughly enjoyed this doc. All the facts well ordered and presented in coherent manner with no dramatic music or cheap thrills. Thank you!

This was absolutely fascinating, extremely detailed and very well made! Thank you!