Mystery Of Voynich Manuscript Finally Has been solved-- It is mostly about women's health (video)-1

Since its discovery in 1912, the 15th century Voynich Manuscript has been a mystery and a cult phenomenon. Full of handwriting in an unknown language or code, the book is heavily illustrated with wierd pictures of alien plants, naked women, strange objects and zodiac symbols. Now, history researcher and television writer Nicholas Gibbs appears to have cracked the code, discovering that the book is actually a guide to women's health that is mostly plagiarized from other guides of the era. Gibbs writes in Literary Supplement that he was commissioned by a television network to analyze the Voynich Manuscript three years ago Because the manuscript has been entirely digitized by Yale's Beinecke Library, he could see tiny detailes in each page and more over them at his leisure. His experience with medieval Latin and familiarity with ancient guides allowed him to uncover the first clues. After looking at the so-called code for a while. Gibbs realized he was seeing a common form of medieval Latin abbreviations, often used in medical treatises about herbs. "From the herbarium incorporated into the Voynich manuscript, a standard pattern of abbreviations and Ligatues from each entry," he wrote "The abbreviations correspond to the standard pattern of words used in the Herbarium Apuleius Platonicus- aq= aqua (water), dg=decoque/ decoctio (decoction), con=confundo (mix), ris= radacis/radix (root), s aiij= seminis ana iij (3 grains each) etc. "So this was not a code at all: it was just shorthand. The text would have been very familiar to anyone at the time who was interested in medicines. (Continued)