Reviews
"For the first time, a complete reproduction [of] The Voynich Manuscript (Yale University Press), 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 "The publication by Yale University Press of an actual-size colored facsimile, with an informative set of specialist essays on the manuscript's history, materials, cryptological puzzles, and public impact, will no doubt encourage wider engagement with its enigmas and set off a multitude of amateur as well as professional attempts to decipher it."--Eamon Duffy, The New York Review of Books "Bibliophiles rejoice--one of the book world's most fascinating and enduring riddles is now available for all to examine. The so-called 'Voynich Manuscript' is proof that, even in our increasingly demystified world, mystery is still alive. . . . For the first time, Yale has reprinted the manuscript in full, in a gorgeous new edition coupled with scholarly essays on the book. All told, the new edition should continue to stoke interest in the eternally mysterious artifact."-- New Criterion "A mouthwatering facsimile of the incunabulum, complete with foldout pages -- one origamied into six folios -- and a handful of scholarly interrogations."--Peter Lewis, Minneapolis Star-Tribune "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, The 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, "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, "For the first time, a complete reproduction [of] The Voynich Manuscript (Yale University Press), 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 "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 "Handsome and well-produced. . . This fascimilie 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, TLS "The publication by Yale University Press of an actual-size colored facsimile, with an informative set of specialist essays on the manuscript's history, materials, cryptological puzzles, and public impact, will no doubt encourage wider engagement with its enigmas and set off a multitude of amateur as well as professional attempts to decipher it."--Eamon Duffy, The New York Review of Books "Bibliophiles rejoice--one of the book world's most fascinating and enduring riddles is now available for all to examine. The so-called 'Voynich Manuscript' is proof that, even in our increasingly demystified world, mystery is still alive. . . . For the first time, Yale has reprinted the manuscript in full, in a gorgeous new edition coupled with scholarly essays on the book. All told, the new edition should continue to stoke interest in the eternally mysterious artifact."-- New Criterion "A mouthwatering facsimile of the incunabulum, complete with foldout pages -- one origamied into six folios -- and a handful of scholarly interrogations."--Peter Lewis, Minneapolis Star-Tribune "[A] very high-quality reproduction of the manuscript . . . [and] the essays are valuable additions to the facsimile."--Jesse Siragan Arlen, Comitatus "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, The 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, "Bibliophiles rejoice--one of the book world's most fascinating and enduring riddles is now available for all to examine. The so-called 'Voynich Manuscript' is proof that, even in our increasingly demystified world, mystery is still alive. . . . For the first time, Yale has reprinted the manuscript in full, in a gorgeous new edition coupled with scholarly essays on the book. All told, the new edition should continue to stoke interest in the eternally mysterious artifact."-- New Criterion "The publication by Yale University Press of an actual-size colored facsimile, with an informative set of specialist essays on the manuscript's history, materials, cryptological puzzles, and public impact, will no doubt encourage wider engagement with its enigmas and set off a multitude of amateur as well as professional attempts to decipher it."--Eamon Duffy, The New York Review of Books "For the first time, a complete reproduction [of] The Voynich Manuscript (Yale University Press), 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, The 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 "A mouthwatering facsimile of the incunabulum, complete with foldout pages -- one origamied into six folios -- and a handful of scholarly interrogations."--Peter Lewis, The Minneapolis Star-Tribune "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, The 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, "A mouthwatering facsimile of the incunabulum, complete with foldout pages -- one origamied into six folios -- and a handful of scholarly interrogations."--Peter Lewis, The Minneapolis Star-Tribune, "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?, "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 27 July 2017, "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, " 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, "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, "The publication by Yale University Press of an actual-size colored facsimile, with an informative set of specialist essays on the manuscript's history, materials, cryptological puzzles, and public impact, will no doubt encourage wider engagement with its enigmas and set off a multitude of amateur as well as professional attempts to decipher it."--Eamon Duffy, The New York Review of Books, "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 "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 "Handsome and well-produced. . . This fascimilie 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 publication by Yale University Press of an actual-size colored facsimile, with an informative set of specialist essays on the manuscript's history, materials, cryptological puzzles, and public impact, will no doubt encourage wider engagement with its enigmas and set off a multitude of amateur as well as professional attempts to decipher it."--Eamon Duffy, New York Review of Books "Bibliophiles rejoice--one of the book world's most fascinating and enduring riddles is now available for all to examine. The so-called 'Voynich Manuscript' is proof that, even in our increasingly demystified world, mystery is still alive. . . . For the first time, Yale has reprinted the manuscript in full, in a gorgeous new edition coupled with scholarly essays on the book. All told, the new edition should continue to stoke interest in the eternally mysterious artifact."-- New Criterion "A mouthwatering facsimile of the incunabulum, complete with foldout pages -- one origamied into six folios -- and a handful of scholarly interrogations."--Peter Lewis, Minneapolis Star-Tribune "[A] very high-quality reproduction of the manuscript . . . [and] the essays are valuable additions to the facsimile."--Jesse Siragan Arlen, Comitatus "This volume sets out clearly and succinctly the current state of knowledge about this remarkable manuscript."--Toby Burrows, Parergon "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, The 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, "For the first time, a complete reproduction [of] The Voynich Manuscript (Yale University Press), 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, The Boston Globe, "For the first time, a complete reproduction [of] The Voynich Manuscript (Yale University Press), 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 "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 "Handsome and well-produced. . . This fascimilie 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, TLS "Bibliophiles rejoice--one of the book world's most fascinating and enduring riddles is now available for all to examine. The so-called 'Voynich Manuscript' is proof that, even in our increasingly demystified world, mystery is still alive. . . . For the first time, Yale has reprinted the manuscript in full, in a gorgeous new edition coupled with scholarly essays on the book. All told, the new edition should continue to stoke interest in the eternally mysterious artifact."-- New Criterion "The publication by Yale University Press of an actual-size colored facsimile, with an informative set of specialist essays on the manuscript's history, materials, cryptological puzzles, and public impact, will no doubt encourage wider engagement with its enigmas and set off a multitude of amateur as well as professional attempts to decipher it."--Eamon Duffy, The New York Review of Books "A mouthwatering facsimile of the incunabulum, complete with foldout pages -- one origamied into six folios -- and a handful of scholarly interrogations."--Peter Lewis, Minneapolis Star-Tribune "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, The 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, "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 "The publication by Yale University Press of an actual-size colored facsimile, with an informative set of specialist essays on the manuscript's history, materials, cryptological puzzles, and public impact, will no doubt encourage wider engagement with its enigmas and set off a multitude of amateur as well as professional attempts to decipher it."--Eamon Duffy, New York Review of Books "Bibliophiles rejoice--one of the book world's most fascinating and enduring riddles is now available for all to examine. The so-called 'Voynich Manuscript' is proof that, even in our increasingly demystified world, mystery is still alive. . . . For the first time, Yale has reprinted the manuscript in full, in a gorgeous new edition coupled with scholarly essays on the book. All told, the new edition should continue to stoke interest in the eternally mysterious artifact."-- New Criterion "A mouthwatering facsimile of the incunabulum, complete with foldout pages--one origamied into six folios--and a handful of scholarly interrogations."--Peter Lewis, Minneapolis Star-Tribune "[A] very high-quality reproduction of the manuscript . . . [and] the essays are valuable additions to the facsimile."--Jesse Siragan Arlen, Comitatus "This volume sets out clearly and succinctly the current state of knowledge about this remarkable manuscript."--Toby Burrows, Parergon "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, "Bibliophiles rejoice--one of the book world's most fascinating and enduring riddles is now available for all to examine. The so-called 'Voynich Manuscript' is proof that, even in our increasingly demystified world, mystery is still alive. . . . For the first time, Yale has reprinted the manuscript in full, in a gorgeous new edition coupled with scholarly essays on the book. All told, the new edition should continue to stoke interest in the eternally mysterious artifact."-- New Criterion, "For the first time, a complete reproduction [of] The Voynich Manuscript (Yale University Press), 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 "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 "Handsome and well-produced. . . This fascimilie 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, TLS "The publication by Yale University Press of an actual-size colored facsimile, with an informative set of specialist essays on the manuscript's history, materials, cryptological puzzles, and public impact, will no doubt encourage wider engagement with its enigmas and set off a multitude of amateur as well as professional attempts to decipher it."--Eamon Duffy, The New York Review of Books "Bibliophiles rejoice--one of the book world's most fascinating and enduring riddles is now available for all to examine. The so-called 'Voynich Manuscript' is proof that, even in our increasingly demystified world, mystery is still alive. . . . For the first time, Yale has reprinted the manuscript in full, in a gorgeous new edition coupled with scholarly essays on the book. All told, the new edition should continue to stoke interest in the eternally mysterious artifact."-- New Criterion "A mouthwatering facsimile of the incunabulum, complete with foldout pages -- one origamied into six folios -- and a handful of scholarly interrogations."--Peter Lewis, Minneapolis Star-Tribune "[A] very high-quality reproduction of the manuscript . . . [and] the essays are valuable additions to the facsimile."--Jesse Siragan Arlen, Comitatus "This volume sets out clearly and succinctly the current state of knowledge about this remarkable manuscript."--Toby Burrows, Parergon "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, The 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, "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, The Morgan Library & Museum, "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, "Sumptuous facsimile reproduction [...] Jennifer Rampling's judiciously sceptical essay [...] is a careful deconstruction of over-excited theories."--Kathryn Murphy, Apollo
