It is not certain when this transaction took place, although experts are able to determine who the manuscript was given to due to an inscription on folio 1 which reads “Jacobi de Tepenecz.” Oddly, this inscription is only able to be read by ultraviolet light. John Dee’s own son stated that while in Bohemia (today the Czech Republic) John possessed “a booke… containing nothing but Hieroglyphicks, which booke his father bestowed much time upon: but I could not heare that hee could make it out.” A page from the cosmology section.Įmperor Rudolph then gave the manuscript to a man named Jacobus Horcicky de Tepenecz (also known by his Latin name Jacobus Sinapius), a Bohemian pharmacist who served as the personal doctor to the emperor. The emperor had purchased the book for six hundred gold ducats, a trade coin used throughout Europe during the Middle Ages and it is believed that Emperor Rudolph had purchased it from John Dee, an English astronomer who had been alive during the later half of the 16th Century. Emperor Rudolph also believed that the author of the manuscript had been Roger Bacon, although evidence gathered since the discovery of the manuscript suggests otherwise. The first and the most notable owner of the Voynich Manuscript was Emperor Rudolph the II of the Holy Roman Empire (present-day Germany), who was the emperor from 1576 to 1612. A page from the Voynich Manuscript with an illustration of a plant.
Unlike the rest of the manuscript, the letter was legible and Voynich believed that the author of the manuscript had been Roger Bacon, an English monk from the 13th Century. According to Voynich, the manuscript also included an enclosed letter which names the previous owners of the manuscript who had all been alive during the first half of the 17th Century. Voynich acquired the book in a Jesuit college in Italy. It is called the Voynich Manuscript because in 1912, a Polish-American book collector (as well as revolutionary and antiquarian) named Wilfrid M. Analyses of the script has determined that there are between fifteen and twenty-seven letters used. It has also been suggested that the Voynich Manuscript was written in Central Europe, although the language used is totally unknown which is the main mystery regarding the text. Who wrote the Voynich Manuscript is unknown, although carbon dating that was carried out in 2009 at the University of Arizona found that the text had been written at some point during the 1400’s, reportedly between 14 although other sources suggest that the text was written as far late as the 16th Century. However, despite being discovered roughly one hundred years ago, the text has yet to be translated and the language it’s written in has yet to be discovered. One such text, known as the Voynich Manuscript, is written in a strange, unknown language. While it is not uncommon to find certain texts written in dead or obscure languages that are not used or spoken anymore, eventually researchers are able to translate or decipher it.
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