Geological and historical evidence suggests that between the 4th and 16th century a series of volcanic eruption occurred on the island of Vulcanello, which later became joined to the island of Vulcano.Īccording to Cheshire, an eruption in 1440 prompted a rescue mission from Naples, at the time ruled by Alfonso the Magnanimous, husband of Maria.
The map supposedly shows four island of the Mediterranean Sea – the conjoined islands of Vulcanello and Vulcano, the island of Lipari, the island of Ischia and the nearby islet of Castello Aragonese. Cheshire 2019Įspecially interesting is a large map found in the manuscript. volcanic island of Vulcanello (A), passing the island of Ischia (B) and Lipari (D). "The map" supposedly showing a rescue mission from the islet of Castello Aragonese (C) to the. According to the author of the study, the Voynich manuscript is an encyclopedia of historical events and medical plants created by Dominican nuns as a reference source on behalf of Maria of Castile, Queen of Aragon, and written in a mix of Latin and ancestral Italian and Spanish. Cheshire matched figures of plants, astrological signs and other objects to letters and words nearby, slowly building a dictionary for parts of the text. Gerard Cheshire, a University of Bristol academic, now proposes yet another interpretation of some of the figures and a possible key to decipher the entire manuscript. Modern forensic analysis revealed that the materials used for the Voynich manuscript were possibly produced in northern Italy between 14, but it may have been written as late as 1608.ĭr.
Despite all the efforts and claims, no one has ever been able to determine its meaning, and some researchers have speculated that the manuscript might be just a historic fake.
#Voynich manuscript book code#
In 2017, research based on a statistical analysis of the used alphabet claimed that the code is written in an odd mix of Italian, Spanish, Latin, English and German.
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