The Voynich Manuscript is meant to be the most mysterious manuscript worldwide. It`s language, it`s symbols, remain unknown. Wilfrid M. Voynich was the man who found it. He was a Lithuanian guy, captured by Russians and taken to Siberia, from he escaped in 1890. He stayed in Hamburg for a while and then moved to London. It is known that he spoke as much as 18 languages, but all pretty bad...
Even though he translated Marx into English. Very soon his interest for the old books became well known in London, specifically in Soho Square. In 1912 went to Italy where bought the manuscript that nowadays bares his name. Just at the beginning of the 1st world war he moved to NY.
