Because of our strong conviction that excellent shit should be written about on the internet, MobyLives has many times covered the Voynich manuscript, often described as the world’s most mysterious book, and probably… Read more »

Ah, the Voynich manuscript! It’s old, it’s weird, and nobody knows who wrote it or what it means. Every few years somebody claims to have made a breakthrough, but it still continues to baffle linguists and… Read more »

It’s been a good month for lovers of arcane and bizarre books. The Voynich Manuscript—a mysterious fourteenth-century tract written in a script that has steadfastly resisted a century’s worth of… Read more »

2014 is shaping up to be the year of the Voynich Manuscript. The inscrutable text plays a major role in Rachel Cantor’sA Highly Unlikely Scenario, published by Melville House this… Read more »

Since it was discovered in 1912, the Voynich Manuscript has confounded scholars and researchers. Named for the collector who discovered it, the manuscript is a seeminly untranslatable text, in an… Read more »

The Voynich Manuscript, a book written in an unknown and undecipherable language and illustrated with images of biological specimens, astrological diagrams, and nude woman bathing in a complex system of pool… Read more »