The very first intention for writing a Book is the intent to communicate or pass information.
Some books has been useful in Science, some technology others, Agriculture and so on…while some other books has proved themselves useful with the way the stir up mystery
Scattered all over the world, people have discovered so many MYSTERIOUS books lying about. Today, we’ll see the most mysterious books I the world.
1.) The voynich manuscript
Yale University’s library holds a book cover with so much mystery . It’s pages contains looping handwriting, it also contains images drawn by hand, real and imaginary plants, floating castles, bathing women, Zodiac rings, and drawings of the solar environment, like the sun and moon.
The only copy of a 240 page tome dated to around 1420
This book is 24 by 16 centimeter in size,
IT’S one of history’s unsolved mysteries. The name comes from Wilford voyage, a Polish bookseller who came across the document at a Jesuit College in Italy in 1912 and then published it.
The first attempts at deciphering it were done back in 1665.
There was a clear record of ownership tracing it back to an alchemist in Prague named George buresh. In the early 1600s,
Wilford was puzzled Who wrote it? What does it mean? What do these bizarre words and vibrant drawings represent? What secrets do its pages contain? He purchased the manuscript from the cash strapped preset the college and eventually brought it to the US, and in the US, experts have continued to puzzle over it for more than a century. cryptologists say the writing has all the characteristics of a real language, just one that no one’s ever seen before.
Perhaps medieval scholars were attempting to create an alphabet for a language that was spoken, but not yet written.
This is one of the most frustrating and tantalizing things about the voynich manuscript is that when they feel like they have just enough information that they think they might be able to figure it out, And then they hit a brick wall.
No one who has read the voynich manuscript that hasn’t stopped people from guessing what it might say.
The first breakthrough was the carbon dating. Also, contemporary historians have traced the provenance of the manuscript back through Rome and Prague to as early as 1612. When it was perhaps passed from Holy Roman Emperor, Rudolph the second to his physician.
2.) The Rojas Codex
Number five, the Rojas Codex 1938, a Hungarian Prince named Gustaf bastiani, donated his old family library in the village of river haunts to the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Amongst the pile of old books was one particularly old book that seemed to be written in a Runic language that nobody can understand.
They took special interest in this book, because only recently they found another book called The Book of terracotta, which seemed to suggest that there was a much grander history for the Hungarian people. And they wanted to say as this book could corroborate some of the stuff that came out of that other books, so there were Hans Codex went through intense study and debate, but the further people looked into it, the more inscrutable it seemed to be. It’s written in a script that’s indecipherable with 792 distinctive characters, people have proposed that it’s early to Hungarian, dossin, Romanian, cumin and even Hindi. But none of these theories is really panned out. Some of the characters resemble symbols that were engraved into cave walls once occupied by smithian monks. And there are still debates as to whether or not the book gets read left to right or top to bottom or anything in between. and it’s filled with drawings containing Christian Muslim and Hindi symbols along with pagan imagery.
Many Hungarian scholars to this day think that it’s all just a forgery perpetrated by a guy named Sam well, literati. nemos, who was a antiquities dealer in the 1830s, He was a Hungarian nationalist who it turns out had forged a lot of these books to try to spur nationalist pride, in it problem with that theory is that the paper in the book has been traced back to Venice in the 1530s. And that’s like 300 years earlier.
He actually kept notes on all of his forgeries, and there’s nothing in there about the Rojas Codex. Then there was the fact that all the records that there were haunt the library where this had been kept all that time showed records of it going back to 1748. And nimis, was born in 1796. So that’s a problem. So the best guesses based on just the illustrations in the book is that it’s some kind of religious texts with prayers and stories from the Bible with a little bit of the history and fights against the Hungarians.