In case your inner historian finds this somewhat annoying, please take a few deep breaths and remind yourself that “ it’s just television” – if you want to read up on it properly, there is at least a 230-page book you can buy that presents all the evidence in a reasonably compelling way. Just so you know, the televisual conceit was to visually reconstruct the evidence chain and associated reasoning that led to my whole Averlino theory. This whole Voynich segment was filmed over five days last summer in locations centrally linked to Antonio Averlino’s life and works, such as the Ospedale Maggiore & Castello Sforzesco in Milan, and the Campanile in Venice (looking down onto the onion domes of St Mark’s Basilica).
#Voynich manuscript documentary series
Their producers approached me to ask if I would contribute to a 22-minute documentary segment based on “The Curse of the Voynich”: though it just missed the cut for series 1, I was delighted to be able to take part when they subsequently wanted to include it in series 2. ?įast forward to early 2010, when London-based factual television production house WAGtv were working on the the first series of Ancient X Files for National Geographic. ( If, indeed, it fell at all.) Personally, I still think my book is a great piece of historical detective work (I posted a nice summary of it here), but I suspect it remains too “out there” for almost all Voynich researchers, most of whom seem to rely more on lightweight inductive logic than on the kind of heavyweight hyper-deduction I had to employ. However, put these two things together and it should be no great surprise that, a couple of nicely appreciative reviews aside, my tree of research fell onto the Voynich research community’s forest floor with a deafening silence. Sad, really.Ģ006 was also the year that I wrote and published “The Curse of the Voynich” ( copies still available, and at very reasonable air mail rates ? ), with the aim of summing up the research I had built up over several years – basically, that the Voynich Manuscript may well have been written by Northern Italian Quattrocento architect Antonio Averlino ( better known as “ Filarete“).
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And without the 2009 radiocarbon dating (which dated its vellum to 1404-1438 with 95% confidence) to help ground the whole debate, the Voynich was arguably even more like a blank historical canvas (upon which you can paint whatever theory you like) than it is today. “The Curse of the Voynich” Meets WAGtv…īack in 2006, the general consensus was that the Voynich Manuscript was an extraordinary late 16th century hoax, constructed to part an extraordinary fool ( Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II) from his extraordinary money ( 600 gold ducats). It’s time to tell some of the story behind the documentary… 1.
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?Īnd by a nice coincidence which Nat Geo’s schedulers seem, errrm, mostly unaware of, this is also when I shall be in Frascati preparing for the upcoming Voynich Centenary conference the following day. Though the episode is entitled “Sodom and Gomorrah” ( “Sodome et Gomorrhe” in French), be reassured that 50% of it is the Voynich part. Join the conversation at the Starquest Facebook page and the Jimmy Akin’s Mysterious World Facebook page.WAGtv’s “Ancient X-Files” Voynich episode will first air at 20:40 on 10th May 2012 on the National Geographic channel in France, where the series has been retitled “ De l’ombre à la lumière“.Check out Jimmy Akin’s blog and Dom Bettinelli’s blog.Purchase the books and other material from this and other episodes at the Mysterious World Bookstore.Please spread the word about the podcast.Probing the Statistical Properties of Unknown Texts: Application to the Voynich Manuscript.Yale University Home Page for the Manuscript.“The Voynich Code” (documentary on Amazon Prime).
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#Voynich manuscript documentary archive
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MYS045: In 1912, a rare book written in an unknown alphabet containing bizarre illustrations was revealed by Wilfrid Voynich and despite decades of effort, it has never been deciphered.