what do you think voynich manuscript really is?

@surfer222 (1714)
Indonesia
October 22, 2011 7:45am CST
Today i just read about unsolved manuscript called voynich. What do you think voynich manuscript really is? Do you think it's a lost knowledge? Or a poetry? Or you have another guess? Do you think a ghost from the past laughing at us because we're trying to understand this writing?
2 responses
@dollar3235 (2062)
• India
22 Oct 11
If at this advanced age (21st Century) we are not able to decipher it, obviously it was not written by human being, I mean, it could be a work of some extra terrestrial civilization which is more advanced than us.
• India
24 Oct 11
People who want to cover up the truth of extra terrestrial contact, they often use this word "hoax". There are n number of such things which clearly confirm that they have contacted us and are still in contact with us but these people will never tell you the truth (Men in Black situation) E.g. "City of Fatima Alien encounter" and "14th April Nuremberg Germany alien war" are one of those encounters in our history which were seen by more than 1000 people at a time (for city of Fatima, approximately 50K+ people witnessed it) but still these people will say, it's hoax but in fact, it could either be heights of dumbness or heights of cleverness.
@surfer222 (1714)
• Indonesia
22 Oct 11
Yes, that's also possible. Nobody seems to understand the text which was written in this manuscript. Many of the drawing is also uniquely confusing.
@surfer222 (1714)
• Indonesia
24 Oct 11
The pdf file is interesting... they also consider the possibility that it just a hoax.
@savypat (20216)
• United States
22 Oct 11
I am trying to remember what I know about the 1400s, my guess would be an herbal reference book. Maybe even white witch craft which often involved the use of herbs. My guess comes from the illistrations I've seen. Not much to go on at all.
@surfer222 (1714)
• Indonesia
22 Oct 11
witch craft actually make sense because there's also drawings of weird animals.
@topffer (42156)
• France
23 Oct 11
I just had a look to this manuscript. I spent a lot of time in public archives during my life and the writing looks more from the beginning of the 16th C than from the 15th C -- though the end of the 15th C is possible --. The idea of an herbal is interesting, but there is also some biological and astronomical drawings. All these things were taught in universities at this period, and I would more see a manuscript belonging to a student or a teacher in pharmacy or medicine than to a witch.