Thursday, December 25, 2008

the first outsider art?



The Voynich Manuscript is a 16th century 200-page document written in an untranslatable language. It consists of 170,000 characters broken up into 35,000 “words” using between twenty and thirty unique “letters.” It also has a number of drawings on various subjects including crudely drawn nude women.the Voynich Manuscript the other day, which is a 16th century 200-page document written in an untranslatable language. It consists of 170,000 characters broken up into 35,000 “words” using between twenty and thirty unique “letters.” It also has a number of drawings on various subjects including crudely drawn nude women. Nobody knows what it says. Cryptologists and linguists are stumped by it. Some people think it’s a hoax or the word of someone with mental problems.

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