The VManus reading room

The Voynich
manuscript

Plants, pools, stars, and a script
we still cannot read.

This notebook brings together the complete working draft in English, manuscript pages, and the reasoning behind the interpretation. Choose a folio and take your time.

Open the reading room

No confirmed translation exists. Proposed meanings are kept separate from the manuscript text.

Folio 11r, showing an unidentified botanical drawing surrounded by lines of Voynich script.
Beinecke MS 408 · 11r · Yale source

In this notebook

  1. IThe reading roomThe full English working draft, page by page
  2. IIResearch notesCurrent interpretations, evidence, and open questions
  3. IIIThe journalA dated record of changes to the work