![]() ![]() ![]() In fact, he little suspected, when he was first introduced to the problem of the Voynich manuscript at Brigadier Tiltman’s lecture in November 1975, that he would spend all his spare time for the next year on an intellectual and spiritual journey spanning so many centuries and ranging over so many aspects of art, history, philosophy, and philology. The author does not wish to imply that he regrets any of his efforts. As a relatively recent newcomer to the ranks of Voynich manuscript research, the author retraced the steps of all his predecessors, rediscovering their sources, repeating their experiments, growing excited over the same promising leads that excited them, and learning only later that all these things have already been tried and had failed, often several times. ![]() The reader may well wonder, “What still another paper on the Voynich manuscript?” So much has been written already on that most studies, most curious, and most mysterious manuscript upon which so many researchers have exhausted their faculties in vain. ![]()
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