![]() ![]() Lots of image cropping: apparently conceived as a coffee table book rather than a facsimile edition. The grand-daddy of the current generation: prefaced by a long (and fairly pointless) recap of the Voynich Manuscript’s history in French. ![]() (1) Le Code Voynich – Jean-Claude Gawsewitch People often ask me for a recommendation for a good Voynich facsimile edition, but don’t seem to grasp that these days review copies of anything are as rare as hen’s gold-capped false teeth… hence I don’t normally get to see any first hand. Thankfully that’s (very) ancient history now!Īlso, if anyone passing has bought a copy of any of these apart from “Le Code Voynich”, please leave a comment here as to what you thought of it. Oh, and don’t get me started on Yale’s CopyFlo print, that was a purely monochrome edition that was really quite painful to work with: you basically had to simultaneously read the colour annotations in the interlinear transcription and imagine the details in the appropriate colour… which was neither effective nor useful. Maybe you can buy them, maybe you can’t: but here’s everything I know, make of it all what you will. Here’s a list of the various Voynich facsimile editions that have been (or are still) actually in print and that I’ve heard about to date. ![]()
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