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Publication Yr: | 2016 |
| Format: | Hardcover | Language: | English |
| ISBN: |
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The Voynich Manuscript by Raymond Clemens 9780300217230 | Model New
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| Discover the world s most mysterious manuscript Many name the fifteenth-century codex, generally referred to as the Voynich Manuscript, the world s most mysterious e-book. Written in an unknown script by an unknown creator, the manuscript has no clearer goal now than when it was rediscovered in 1912 by uncommon books seller Wilfrid Voynich. The manuscript seems and disappears all through historical past, from the library of the Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II to a secret sale of books in 1903 by the Society of Jesus in Rome. The e-book s language has eluded decipherment, and its elaborate illustrations stay as baffling as they’re stunning. For the primary time, this facsimile, full with elaborate folding sections, permits readers to discover this enigma in all its beautiful element, from its one-of-a-kind Voynichese textual content to its illustrations of otherworldly crops, unfamiliar constellations, and bare ladies swimming although fantastical tubes and inexperienced baths. The essays that accompany the manuscript clarify what now we have discovered about this work from alchemical, cryptographic, forensic, and historic views however they supply few definitive solutions. As an alternative, as “New York Instances” best-selling creator Deborah Harkness says in her introduction, the e-book invitations the reader to hitch us on the coronary heart of the thriller. “ Many name the fifteenth-century codex, generally referred to as the “Voynich Manuscript,” the world’s most mysterious e-book. Written in an unknown script by an unknown creator, the manuscript has no clearer goal now than when it was rediscovered in 1912 by uncommon books seller Wilfrid Voynich. The manuscript seems and disappears all through historical past, from the library of the Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II to a secret sale of books in 1903 by the Society of Jesus in Rome. The e-book’s language has eluded decipherment, and its elaborate illustrations stay as baffling as they’re stunning. For the primary time, this facsimile, full with elaborate folding sections, permits readers to discover this enigma in all its beautiful element, from its one-of-a-kind “Voynichese” textual content to its illustrations of otherworldly crops, unfamiliar constellations, and bare ladies swimming although fantastical tubes and inexperienced baths. The essays that accompany the manuscript clarify what now we have discovered about this work–from alchemical, cryptographic, forensic, and historic perspectives–but they supply few definitive solutions. As an alternative, as New York Instances best-selling creator Deborah Harkness says in her introduction, the e-book “invitations the reader to hitch us on the coronary heart of the thriller.” The fifteenth-century codex generally referred to as the “Voynich Manuscript” is commonly thought of the world’s most mysterious e-book. Written in an unknown script by an unknown creator, the manuscript has no clearer goal now than when it was rediscovered in 1912 by uncommon books seller Wilfred Voynich. The e-book’s language has eluded decipherment, and its elaborate illustrations stay as baffling as they’re stunning. For the primary time, this facsimile permits readers to discover this enigma in all its beautiful element, from its one-of-a-kind “Voynichese” textual content to its illustrations of otherworldly crops, unfamiliar constellations, and bare ladies swimming although fantastical tubes and inexperienced baths. The essays that accompany the manuscript clarify what now we have discovered about this work–from alchemical, cryptographic, forensic, and historic perspectives–but present few definitive solutions. As an alternative, as New York Instances best-selling creator Deborah Harkness says in her introduction, the e-book “invitations the reader to hitch us on the coronary heart of the thriller.” The primary approved copy of this mysterious, much-speculated-upon, one-of-a-kind, centuries-old puzzle. The Voynich Manuscript is produced from new pictures of your complete authentic and accompanied by knowledgeable essays that invite anybody to know and discover the enigma. Many name the fifteenth-century codex, generally referred to as the -Voynich Manuscript, – the world’s most mysterious e-book. Written in an unknown script by an unknown creator, the manuscript has no clearer goal now than when it was rediscovered in 1912 by uncommon books seller Wilfrid Voynich. The manuscript seems and disappears all through historical past, from the library of the Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II to a secret sale of books in 1903 by the Society of Jesus in Rome. The e-book’s language has eluded decipherment, and its elaborate illustrations stay as baffling as they’re stunning. For the primary time, this facsimile, full with elaborate folding sections, permits readers to discover this enigma in all its beautiful element, from its one-of-a-kind -Voynichese- textual content to its illustrations of otherworldly crops, unfamiliar constellations, and bare ladies swimming although fantastical tubes and inexperienced baths. The essays that accompany the manuscript clarify what now we have discovered about this work–from alchemical, cryptographic, forensic, and historic perspectives–but they supply few definitive solutions. As an alternative, as New York Instances best-selling creator Deborah Harkness says in her introduction, the e-book -invites the reader to hitch us on the coronary heart of the thriller.- | |
| Product Identifiers | |
| ISBN-10 | 0300217234 |
| ISBN-13 | 9780300217230 |
| eBay Product ID (ePID) | 221702068 |
| Key Particulars | |
| Creator | Deborah E. Harkness, Raymond Clemens |
| Quantity Of Pages | 304 pages |
| Format | Hardcover |
| Publication Date | 2016-11-01 |
| Language | English |
| Writer | Yale College Press |
| Publication Yr | 2016 |
| Further Particulars | |
| Copyright Date | 2016 |
| Illustrated | Sure |
| Dimensions | |
| Weight | 63.three Oz |
| Peak | 1 In. |
| Width | 9.three In. |
| Size | 12.three In. |
| Goal Viewers | |
| Group | Commerce |
| Classification Technique | |
| LCCN | 2016-934383 |
| LC Classification Quantity | Z105.5 |
| Dewey Decimal | zero25.341 |
| Dewey Version | 23 |
| Opinions | |
| ” The Voynich Manuscript , a quantity edited by the library’s curator Raymond Clemens, revivifies this tantalising artefact… Huge margins are intentionally offered for readers’ notes on their very own concepts. ‘Bonne likelihood!’, writes Clemens. I am going to second that.”–Andrew Robinson, Nature “A e-book worthy of its topic in each means. Clemens and his collaborators have completed a unprecedented job teasing out a number of the secrets and techniques and wonders of the enigmatic Voynich Manuscript in methods that can make this quantity a useful useful resource for a few years to come back.”–Bruce Holsinger, creator of A Burnable Ebook “A mouthwatering facsimile of the incunabulum, full with foldout pages — one origamied into six folios — and a handful of scholarly interrogations.”–Peter Lewis, The Minneapolis Star-Tribune “As good-looking a brand new e-book as you might personal. This medieval magnificence has all of it: fold-out sections. Delicate illustrations of crops, astrological charts, what look to be alchemical recipes… However the principle factor about it– the factor that makes publishing it so quixotic– is that it is a e-book you’ll be able to’t really learn. No person can.”–Sam Leith, Prospect “Bibliophiles rejoice–one of the e-book world’s most fascinating and enduring riddles is now obtainable for all to look at. The so-called ‘Voynich Manuscript’ is proof that, even in our more and more demystified world, thriller continues to be alive. . . . For the primary time, Yale has reprinted the manuscript in full, in a beautiful new version coupled with scholarly essays on the e-book. All instructed, the brand new version ought to proceed to stoke curiosity within the eternally mysterious artifact.”– New Criterion “For individuals who like a very good historic thriller, this primary approved publication of the fifteenth- or sixteenth-century Voynich Manuscript will fascinate.”-Rebecca Onion, Slate? “For the primary time, an entire replica [of] The Voynich Manuscript (Yale College Press), has been revealed, that includes essays exploring what is understood in regards to the e-book and extra-wide margins so readers can report their responses to its beguiling, stunning strangeness.”–Nina Maclaughlin, The Boston Globe “Many fingers have held Voynich’s now-eponymous e-book over the centuries . . . but none of them have managed convincingly to unravel its mysteries.”–Deborah Harkness, from the Introduction “The publication by Yale College Press of an actual-size coloured facsimile, with an informative set of specialist essays on the manuscript’s historical past, supplies, cryptological puzzles, and public influence, will little question encourage wider engagement with its enigmas and set off a mess of newbie in addition to skilled makes an attempt to decipher it.”–Eamon Duffy, The New York Overview of Books “This new e-book, reproducing your complete Voynich Manuscript, is a godsend. Whereas the essays supply legitimate clues to the manuscript’s age and relation to late medieval science, the manuscript itself stubbornly refuses to yield its secrets and techniques.”–Roger S. Wieck, Division of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts, The Morgan Library & Museum | |
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