The writer gives examples to show that the code used in the Voynich Manuscript is probably a series of Italian word anagrams written in a fancy embellished script. This code, that has been confusing scholars for nearly a century, is therefore not as complicated as it first appears.

All attempts over the past century to decode this mysterious manuscript have met with failure. This is probably due to the initial error made by Voynich and his followers attributing the authorship of the manuscript to Roger Bacon, the 13th century British scientist, monk and scholar. As I showed in a previous paper on my Website, The Voynich Manuscript, was the author left handed?, Roger Bacon could not have written this manuscript and I suggested that a young (around 8 to 10 years old) Leonardo da Vinci was a likely author.


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"One of Nick Pelling’s blogs focused my attention on investigating the finer details of the VM, particularly on Folio 17v, where I was fascinated to find the concealed name of the artist. The hairs on top of the middle tuber spell L ? Vinci, Plate 1. Was I surprised to find that Leonardo had included his name as part of the drawing? No! Leonardo was known for his love of visual puns and rebuses (a pictorial puzzle), and for tricks, jokes and deceptions of all kinds."


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Of course there are other theories for this manuscript but I thought I might share this one view.