Now, we invite you to decipher a manuscript that exudes mystery and is only known to contain 37,919 words written in 25 different characters and accompanied by drawings as beautiful as they are arcane.Ģ24 pages including: five diptychs, three triptychs, one quadriptych and one polyptych of six pages. The book is accompanied by a bilingual addendum with expert commentary. The interior is printed on an off-white paper that imitates and reproduces the papers of the period and bound in natural pergamenata, like the original.Īn elegant slipcase with stamping, which includes, in addition to the book, a numbered and stamped certificate of originality and ten magnificent art prints that reproduce the most spectacular illustrations of the interior, also in limited edition on premium 200 gram Coral Book Ivory for framing or simply collecting and a scrolled partchment reproducing one of the interior triptycs. This book is a facsimile edition of the original a numbered, limited, worldwide edition of 6,765 copies. With this facsimile edition, The Galobart Books and Fosbury Books, a well-known publishing house with experience in publishing jewels in numbered and limited editions, wants to bring this work to all audiences, in a limited edition for the whole world. Once again, another superior product from Galobart Books. Overall, it’s a gorgeous facsimile, and I’m very glad I purchased it. The pages are brown and weathered, and colors are muted like you see in photographs. The polyptych, 6 page foldout is detached from the spine, so one can pull it out and unfold it to its full glory without feeling like it might ruin the binding. The diptych, triptych and quadriptych pages are sturdy. However, the piece de resistance is the actual facsimile of the manuscript itself The page edges are unevenly cut (like the manuscript) – it’s wrapped in a plan white cover. The prints and the Rolled parchment are nice. The facsimile comes with the facsimile print of the Manuscript itself, a small bi-lingual study guide, 10 prints from the Manuscript, a rolled vellum parchment of one of the triptychs, and numbered/signed certificate of authenticity. There has only been one man who managed to get close enough to such a studied codex: Indiana Jones, although his character was fiction, and the movie was pure fantasy. Our mission is to bring this compendium of secrets to lovers of works that transgress the unusual, as it is an enigma that no technical advance has been able to solve in 600 years. There are skeptics who attribute it to the simple notebook of a madman, but the truth is that its indecipherable condition has attracted the attention of historians, cryptographers, renowned doctors in ancient languages and even NASA scientists. Some point to the Cosmos, others to botany or obscure sciences. Six centuries later, it has not been possible to identify the language used by the anonymous author. Although it also lacks a date, carbon-14 analysis has placed it between approximately 14. It also has no title and is uncapitulated. He didn’t succeed and, finally, ended up donating it to Yale University in the mid-1960s. From there it traveled to New York, where the antiquarian Hans Peter Kraus acquired it from his heirs for $24,500 with the intention of reselling it. He discovered it in the Franciscan convent of Mondragone (Italy). Voynich got hold of it in 1912, convinced that its indecipherable contents hid the principles for a future revolution in modern science. It is known that this document dates from the 15th century, that it is written in a language that no one has been able to decipher and that it contains a series of enigmatic images and illustrations.Īstral signs, non-existent flowers and plants, esoteric images and nudes complete a work as attractive as it is mysterious, which caught the attention of a bookseller interested in the unusual and from whom it takes the name by which it is known today. John Dee, a magician who claimed to be in constant communication with the angels by means of magic stones, and Edward Kelley, an alchemist and researcher of the occult, of suspicious fame and quite a charlatan, were the ones who negotiated the important sale of one of the strangest codices, if not the strangest, and whose meaning remains a mystery. It is said that Emperor Rudolf II of Habsburg, a lover of palmistry, obscure sciences and the eccentric, acquired the strange manual in exchange for 600 gold ducats in 1580. THE VOYNICH MANUSCRIPT: LIMITED AND NUMBERED FACSIMILE EDITIONĪn emperor, an alleged trickster and a magician are the only clues to the origins of the Voynich Manuscript.
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