It was found in 1912 by book dealer Wilfrid Voynich at a Jesuit college in Italy.
Circular diagrams with suns, moons, and zodiac symbols. Voynich Manuscript
Numerous drawings of small nude women in interconnected tubs or "vats" of liquid. Cosmological: Complex, often fold-out, circular diagrams. It was found in 1912 by book dealer
While the script looks like a language, it follows unique patterns. It obeys Zipf’s Law (shorter words appear more frequently), which suggests a natural language, yet it has "anomalously low" entropy, meaning it is more repetitive than most known languages. The Sections Cosmological: Complex, often fold-out, circular diagrams
Drawings of plants, though most cannot be identified as known species.
The manuscript is divided into several thematic parts based on its illustrations:
The remains one of the world's most enduring mysteries: a 240-page book written in an entirely unknown script and filled with bizarre illustrations of non-existent plants, astrological diagrams, and nude women bathing in strange plumbing systems. The Facts