History's Most Mysterious Book

The Voynich Manuscript, named after Wilfrid Voynich, an antiquarian bookseller who acquired it in 1912 and is now housed at Yale University's Rare Book and Manuscript Library, is a fascinating book that contains more than 200 vellum pages of vivid, colorful illustrations and handwritten prose. There is only one problem: nobody knows what any of it means. https://www.patreon.com/c/HistoryShortsPodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices