The Voynich Manuscript [Audiobook] download free by Deborah E. Harkness
- Listen audiobook: The Voynich Manuscript
- Author: Deborah E. Harkness
- Release date: 2016/11/15
- Publisher: YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Poetry and Drama
- ISBN: 9780300217230
- Rating: 8.25 of 10
- Votes: 849
- Review by: Melinda Gomes
- Review rating: 7.32 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/9/13
- Duration: 3H47M40S in 256 kbps (60.8 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-07-12
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: MP3, MPEG4, WMA, WAV, AU, FLAC, MPC (compression TBZ, ZIP, RZ, CBC, RAR, ARC)
- Total pages original book: 304
- Includes a PDF summary of 31 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 24M18S (6.2 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: The first authorized copy of this mysterious, much-speculated-upon, one-of-a-kind, centuries-old puzzle. The Voynich Manuscript is produced from new photographs of the entire original and accompanied by expert essays that invite anyone to understand and explore the enigma. Many call the fifteenth-century codex, commonly known as the 'Voynich Manuscript,' the world's most mysterious book. Written in an unknown script by an unknown author, the manuscript has no clearer purpose now than when it was rediscovered in 1912 by rare books dealer Wilfrid Voynich. The manuscript appears and disappears throughout history, from the library of the Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II to a secret sale of books in 1903 by the Society of Jesus in Rome. The book's language has eluded decipherment, and its elaborate illustrations remain as baffling as they are beautiful. For the first time, this facsimile, complete with elaborate folding sections, allows readers to explore this enigma in all its stunning detail, from its one-of-a-kind 'Voynichese' text to its illustrations of otherworldly plants, unfamiliar constellations, and naked women swimming though fantastical tubes and green baths. The essays that accompany the manuscript explain what we have learned about this work-from alchemical, cryptographic, forensic, and historical perspectives-but they provide few definitive answers. Instead, as New York Times best-selling author Deborah Harkness says in her introduction, the book 'invites the reader to join us at the heart of the mystery.'
- Other categories, genre or collection: Social & Cultural History, Early History: C 500 To C 1450/1500, Literary Studies: General, Early Modern History: C 1450/1500 To C 1700, Literary Studies: C 1500 To C 1800, European History, Literary Studies: Classical, Early & Medieval, Popular Beliefs & Controversial Knowledge
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- Format: Hardback
- Approximate value: 61.30 USD
- Dimensions: 229x305x27.94mm
- Weight: 1,792g
- Printed by: Not Available
- Published in: United States
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