Tiny Spanish publisher clones world’s most mysterious bookIt’s one of the world’s most mysterious books, a centuries-old manuscript written in an unknown or coded language that no one — not even the best cryptographers — has cracked. Scholars have spent their lives puzzling over the Voynich Manuscript, whose intriguing mix of elegant writing and drawings of strange plants and naked women has some believing it holds magical powers. (Flickr / Elusive Muse) | mb.com.ph Voynich Manusript(Flickr / Elusive Muse) | mb.com.phThe weathered book is locked away in a vault at Yale University’s Beinecke Library, emerging only occasionally. “More than 90 percent of all the access to their digital library is only for the Voynich Manuscript,” he adds. The art of cloningOnly slightly bigger than a paperback, the book contains over 200 pages including several large fold-outs.

Source: Manila Bulletin August 21, 2016 03:33 UTC