[Cryptography] Voynich Manuscript to be published

Jerry Leichter leichter at lrw.com
Tue Aug 23 21:19:50 EDT 2016


> Also, FYI, the picture in that article of the neo-gothic library is
> misleading.  That's where the manuscript is for the moment, while
> the rare book library is undergoing renovations.  When it reopens
> next month it'll be moved back here to this much more appropriate
> environment:
> 
> http://beinecke.library.yale.edu/sites/default/files/BRBL-126-interior-tower.JPG
> 
> I've been there, that's really what it looks like.
Indeed.  The "video screens" that appear to cover the outside walls are *not* screens at all:  They are panels of fairly thinly sliced natural stone.  The glow is sunlight coming through the stone.  (From the outside, it just looks well, like pieces of stone.)  Quite an impressive site.

                                                        -- Jerry



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