Voynich Manuscript Pages May Be Bound Out of Order

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentA new study says the Voynich Manuscript, the medieval book nobody can read, may have had its pages bound in the wrong order the whole time, Smithsonian Magazine reports.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorThe whole time? Scholars have been working on this for over a century.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentYes.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentThe study says several illustrations run off the middle of a page and come out on the other side, even though many pages sit in between.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorMany pages in between. That's a drawing with a very long commute.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentOne of the researchers, Lisa Fagin Davis, says any research that relies on the current sequence of pages needs to be revisited.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorRevisited is a lovely word. I'd call a hundred years of scholarship a very thorough pilot phase.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentMy theory is the scribes were all in one booklet, which one researcher says is simply not done.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentSo someone shuffled it later and never posted a correction.

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    Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorMine is that the book is fine and we've been reading it like a Wednesday issue on a Friday.

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    Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorVerdict: probably a binding error, and nobody has a translation yet.

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    Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentDavis says it only moves the ball, no translation.

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    Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentSix hundred years of nobody getting past the first page, and it turns out it was never the first page.