![]() Dee apparently owned the manuscript along with a number of other Roger Bacon manuscripts. It is very likely that Emperor Rudolph acquired the manuscript from the English astrologer John Dee (1527-1608). The codex belonged to Emperor Rudolph II of Germany (Holy Roman Emperor, 1576-1612), who purchased it for 600 gold ducats and believed that it was the work of Roger Bacon. Like its contents, the history of ownership of the Voynich manuscript is contested and filled with some gaps. Read a detailed chemical analysis of the Voynich Manuscript (8 p., pdf) History of the Collection Described as a magical or scientific text, nearly every page contains botanical, figurative, and scientific drawings of a provincial but lively character, drawn in ink with vibrant washes in various shades of green, brown, yellow, blue, and red.īased on the subject matter of the drawings, the contents of the manuscript fall into six sections: 1) botanicals containing drawings of 113 unidentified plant species 2) astronomical and astrological drawings including astral charts with radiating circles, suns and moons, Zodiac symbols such as fish (Pisces), a bull (Taurus), and an archer (Sagittarius), nude females emerging from pipes or chimneys, and courtly figures 3) a biological section containing a myriad of drawings of miniature female nudes, most with swelled abdomens, immersed or wading in fluids and oddly interacting with interconnecting tubes and capsules 4) an elaborate array of nine cosmological medallions, many drawn across several folded folios and depicting possible geographical forms 5) pharmaceutical drawings of over 100 different species of medicinal herbs and roots portrayed with jars or vessels in red, blue, or green, and 6) continuous pages of text, possibly recipes, with star-like flowers marking each entry in the margins.įor a complete physical description and foliation, including missing leaves, see the Voynich catalog record. ![]() Voynich, who acquired it in 1912-are still being debated as vigorously as its puzzling drawings and undeciphered text. Note: For the reign of Edward I, for the years 1–13 of Edward II, and for the reign of Richard II, modern scholarly editions collated all or some of the known manuscripts for those years, and these manuscripts are listed in the individual records for cases in those years.Written in Central Europe at the end of the 15th or during the 16th century, the origin, language, and date of the Voynich Manuscript-named after the Polish-American antiquarian bookseller, Wilfrid M. Catalogue of English Legal Manuscripts in Cambridge University. Many manuscript Year Books can be found in IDC’s microfiche English Legal Manuscripts and are listed in:īaker, Sir John. Suggestions, corrections, and additions are welcome. It will be completed and supplemented in future months and years. ![]() The following list has been compiled in 2003 by Susannah Vale. Some manuscripts will contain variant reports that differ markedly and provide new speeches, names of parties, and other information that have never appeared in print. ![]() Some manuscripts will contain reports that have never appeared in print, and so are not indexed in this database. Manuscripts known or believed to contain Year Book reports for a given year or reign, though not necessarily every printed case in that year, are listed in the Table below. One who is researching particular cases for which no modern scholarly edition or translation is found in the Translations/Editions field can consult manuscripts and early printed editions for the relevant regnal year. View Manuscript of the Year Books >View Table of Year Book Abridgements> Where modern editors have given manuscript references, these are included in the Manuscripts field in these database records. Manuscripts may provide variant reports of these printed cases, some longer and some shorter than the case in print. This database indexes and paraphrases Year Books in their most recent printed form, but to settle questions of interpretation and accuracy, manuscripts can often be checked. All of the Year Books were originally reported in manuscript form, and all of them circulated among the legal profession for decades and often centuries in manuscript before they were printed.
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