Publisher wins rights to Voynich manuscript

Publisher wins rights to Voynich manuscript, a book no one can read

after a 10-year appeal for access, Siloe, a small publishing house in northern Spain has secured the right to clone the document – to the delight of its director.

Lol idiots with too much time on their hands. Voynich manuscript is just a joke.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/aug/21/tiny-spanish-publisher-wins-rights-voynich-manuscript-book-no-one-can-read

The publishing house plans to sell the facsimiles for €7,000 to €8,000 (£6,000 to £6,900) apiece. Nearly 300 people have already put in pre-orders.

Voynich manuscript is just a joke.

Yes, it is. But it's a joke that sells. Which makes it an investment.

>>2
Could be a poor investment when the inevitable advancements in joke-detecting technology prove it to be a joke.

>>3
A joke doesn't have this level of dedication.
Its likely some East Asian alchemical/herbal book phonetically transcribed to alphabetical language.

>>4
It could have been some ancient troll. People regularly put immense effort into trolling, I don't see why our forefathers wouldn't have done the same.

>>5
Trolling is not a joke. It is a mental disorder.

>>6
You sound like you've been trolled to insanity

>>4
Back in the XVth century, monks didn't have tablets or gaming consoles or Guitar Hero. Pretty much the only entertainment they had was ancient books which they had to learn by heart and copy by hand, pictures and all. It shouldn't be surprising that a creative monk with well-honed writing and drawing skills got bored and decided to write a fantasy book in make-believe cypher. After all, mediaeval writers were into writing in cyphers, e.g. their 'alchemy' books were in fact manuals for sex magic.