Raymond Clemens is Curator of Early Books and Manuscripts at the Yale University Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library and coauthor of Introduction to Manuscript Studies. Deborah Harkness is a historian of science, professor at the University of Southern California, and the author of the New York Times best-selling All Souls trilogy.
“For the first time, a complete reproduction [of] The Voynich
Manuscript, has been published, featuring essays exploring what is
known about the book and extra-wide margins so readers can record
their responses to its beguiling, beautiful strangeness.”—Nina
MacLaughlin, Boston Globe
“For people who like a good historical mystery, this first
authorized publication of the fifteenth- or sixteenth-century
Voynich Manuscript will fascinate.”—Rebecca Onion, Slate
“Handsome and well-produced. . . This facsimile and the
accompanying series of essays give a clear sense of the current
state of knowledge on the manuscript and reveal the findings of new
research.”—H. R. Woud Huysen, Times Literary Supplement
“The Voynich MS has inspired generations of enthusiasts dedicated
to deciphering it. . . . This beautiful facsimile will make it
available for many more people to become enticed and entranced by
it.”—David V. Barrett, Fortean Times
“The Voynich Manuscript, a volume edited by the library’s curator
Raymond Clemens, revivifies this tantalising artefact. . . . Wide
margins are deliberately provided for readers’ notes on their own
ideas. ‘Bonne chance!,’ writes Clemens. I’ll second that.”—Andrew
Robinson, Nature
“Perhaps studying these pages in the hope of unlocking secrets is
to miss the point. It’s almost as though the book exists in order
to make the inquiry into its existence possible.”—Jamie Martin,
London Review of Books
“As handsome a new book as you could own. This medieval beauty has
it all: fold-out sections, delicate illustrations of plants,
astrological charts, what look to be alchemical recipes. . . . But
the main thing about it—the thing that makes publishing it so
quixotic—is that it’s a book you can’t actually read. Nobody
can.”—Sam Leith, Prospect
“Sumptuous facsimile reproduction. . . . Jennifer Rampling’s
judiciously skeptical essay . . . is a careful deconstruction of
over-excited theories.”—Kathryn Murphy, Apollo
“This new book, reproducing the entire Voynich Manuscript, is a
godsend. While the essays offer valid clues to the manuscript’s age
and relation to late medieval science, the manuscript itself
stubbornly refuses to yield its secrets.”—Roger S. Wieck,
Department of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts, Morgan Library
& Museum
“A book worthy of its subject in every way. Clemens and his
collaborators have done an extraordinary job teasing out some of
the secrets and wonders of the enigmatic Voynich Manuscript in ways
that will make this volume an invaluable resource for many years to
come.”—Bruce Holsinger, author of A Burnable Book
“Many hands have held Voynich’s now-eponymous book over the
centuries . . . yet none of them have managed convincingly to solve
its mysteries.”—Deborah Harkness, from the Introduction
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