Name: TED-ED】世界で一番不思議な本-スティーブン・バックス (【TED-Ed】The world’s most mysterious book - Stephen Bax)
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Deep inside Yale University's Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

its vellum pages features  looping handwriting

and hand-drawn images seemingly stolen from a dream.

and suns and moons with faces accompany the text.

This 24x16 centimeter book is called the Voynich manuscript,

and its one of history's biggest unsolved mysteries.

a Polish bookseller who came across the document at a Jesuit college

What do these bizarre words and vibrant drawings represent?

He purchased the manuscript from the cash-strapped priest at the college,

where experts have continued to puzzle over it for more than a century.

Cryptologists say the writing has all the characteristics of a real language,

What makes it seem real is that in actual languages,

letters and groups of letters appear with consistent frequencies,

and the language in the Voynich manuscript

has patterns you wouldn't find from a random letter generator.

Other than that, we know little more than what we can see.

The letters are varied  in style and height.

Some are borrowed from other scripts, but many are unique.

The taller letters have been named gallows characters.

The manuscript is  highly decorated throughout

It appears to be written by two or more hands,

with the painting done  by yet another party.

Over the years, three main theories about the manuscript's text have emerged.

The first is that it's written in cypher,

a secret code deliberately designed to hide secret meaning.

The second is that the document is a hoax

written in gibberish to make money off a gullible buyer.

Some speculate the author was a medieval con man.

The third theory is that the manuscript is written in an actual language,

Perhaps medieval scholars were attempting to create an alphabet

for a language that was spoken but not yet written.

In that case, the Voynich manuscript might be like the rongorongo script

now unreadable after the culture that made it collapsed.

Though no one can read  the Voynich manuscript,

that hasn't stopped people from guessing what it might say.

Those who believe the manuscript was an attempt to create

speculate that it might be an encyclopedia

containing the knowledge  of the culture that produced it.

Others believe it was written by  the 13th century philosopher Roger Bacon,

who attempted to understand  the universal laws of grammar,

or in the 16th century by the Elizabethan mystic John Dee,

More fringe theories that the book was written by a coven of Italian witches,

scientists have recently shed a little light on the mystery.

The first breakthrough  was the carbon dating.

Also, contemporary historians have traced the provenance of the manuscript

back through Rome and Prague to as early as 1612,

when it was perhaps passed from Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II

In addition to these  historical breakthroughs,

linguistic researchers recently proposed the provisional identification

Could the letters beside these seven stars spell Tauran,

a constellation that includes the seven stars called the Pleiades?

Could this word be Centaurun for the Centaurea plant in the picture?

If we can crack its code, what might we find?

The dream journal of  a 15th-century illustrator?

Or the lost knowledge  of a forgotten culture?

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