Voynich MS - Note from the author

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Latest news

This site is now conforming to the HTML-5 standard. (Minor exceptions are still being ironed out).
Through the efforts of Lisa Fagin Davis, some multi-spectral scans of the Voynich MS have been made public. The link to them may be found here.
The fourth of August has been declared international Voynich MS day. This may be celebrated in different ways each year. 2024 saw an online meeting with interesting presentations and artwork.
This site has migrated to secure https on 6 November 2023. The new URL is: https://voynich.nu
All books and articles about the Voynich MS explain that the MS was hidden in Villa Mondragone in Frascati, until Voynich bought it. This turns out not to be true and it was in another villa, in another town. Full details are included here. Also the history page has been updated correspondingly.
The sale of the Voynich MS to Rudolf II most probably took place in 1599, and the seller was (again most probably) the Augsburg physician Karl Widemann (see here). More information may be found through his biography.
Lisa Fagin Davis has identified five different hands in the writing of the MS.

Voynich MS Conference 2022

The University of Malta has organised an online Voynich MS conference on 30 Nov. and 1 Dec. 2022. The >>proceedings are available on-line. Video recordings of the talks are >>available here.

On-going work

There is an update/extension of Prescott Currier's classification of languages in the MS, see here.
There is considerable on-going work related to transliteration of the Voynich MS, especially concerning the existing transliteration files.
- All files have been converted to a single common format: IVTFF, which allows processing of all files by the same tools.
- A superset of all transliteration alphabets has been defined, and is introduced here.
- A Reference translation has been created by automatically combining the two most accurate ones available (see here).