Following a viewer suggestion *thank you, Caius Martius Coriolanus*, this video explores the tangled history of the Voynich Manuscript. The manuscript is now held in the Beinecke Rare Books and Manuscript Library at Yale University; they have digitised it and it is available at https://beinecke.library.yale.edu/col....

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Images:

Photograph of the Villa Mondragone (15 September 2006 (original upload date)) by R Clemens at English Wikipedia

A portrait of Wilfrid Michael Voynich (1900) by an unknown photographer

Multiple images of the Voynich Manuscript come from the Beinecke's digitisation (https://brbldl.library.yale.edu/vufi...)

Photograph of Hans P. Kraus taken in 1959 at the time he purchased a St. Albans Apocalypse

Photograph of the interior of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library Designed by SOM in 1963 (16 January 2010, 16:45:20); taken by Lauren Manning

Image of the unsolved 340character Zodiac cypher from the late 1960s

Johann Balzer engraving of Johannes Marcus (1772). Source: 87 Abbildungen Böhmischer und Mährischer Gelehrten und Künstler, in Kupfer gestochen und verlegt von Johann Balzer, Prag 1772, S.23

Statue of Roger Bacon in the Oxford University Museum of Natural History. The photograph was taken by Michael Reeve, 30 May 2004

Francesco Melzi’s drawing of Leonardo da Vinci (after 1510); held in the Collection of the Royal Librarian (Winsor Castle, United Kingdom)

An image from a set of 8 extraillustrated volumes of A tour in Wales by Thomas Pennant (17261798) that chronicle the three journeys he made through Wales between 1773 and 1776. These volumes are unique because they were compiled for Pennant's own library at Downing. This edition was produced in 1781. The volumes include a number of original drawings by Moses Griffiths, Ingleby and other wellknown artists of the period. Held in the National Library of Wales

An image of a Grey Alien designed for Genesis 3

An artist’s impression of Atlantis. Source: voidswrath.com

Portrait of John Dee by an unknown artist (16th century); held by the Ashmolean Museum

Hans von Aachen’s portrait of Emperor Rudolf II (1590s); held in the Kunsthistorisches Museum

Johann Balzer’s engraving of Jacobus Sinapius (aka Jakub Horcicky of Tepenec) (1772)

Cornelis Bloemaert’s engraving of Athanasius Kircher (1665); held in the Germanisches Nationalmuseum