| Herbal, 112 folios: Each page displays one or two plants and a few paragraphs of text, a format typical of European of the time | Other text occurs in charts or as labels associated with illustrations |
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| Rugg, Gordon; Taylor, Gavin September 2016 | [ ] A circular drawing in the astronomical section depicts an irregularly shaped object with four curved arms, which Newbold interpreted as a picture of a galaxy, which could be obtained only with a |
While Wilfrid Voynich took Raphael's claim at face value, the Bacon authorship theory has been largely discredited.
25| Perceiving significance in these artefacts can be attributed to | Some pages are foldable sheets of varying size |
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| "Evidence of linguistic structure in the Voynich manuscript using spectral analysis" | With this evidence, he believes it unlikely that these features were intentionally "incorporated" into the text to make a hoax more realistic, as most of the required academic knowledge of these structures did not exist at the time the Voynich manuscript would have been written |
Accept now this token, such as it is and long overdue though it be, of my affection for you, and burst through its bars, if there are any, with your wonted success.
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