The quality of this book begins with the hardcover, translucent and detailed title cover and over all page quality.

The stunningly accurate photo copies of the voynich manuscript are accurately sized at a 1:1 ratio giving it an authentic feel.

This book features multiple fold out pages with large astrological fold outs.

At 55$ this book is certainly worth the price! Got it on sale for 40$ which is a score!

Anyone familiar or unfamiliar with the voynich manuscript is going to love this book!

Beautiful book. The high resolution images of the manuscript’s pages are excellent. It’s also nice they are to scale too. It’s a fascinating document and I’m happy the Yale library made the full codex available in this format. Highly recommend for anyone interested in esoteric or occult studies, cosmology, ancient documents, Theosophical concepts etc…

Exceptionally high quality book, very beautiful, and contains the most recent information available on the amazing enigma that is The Voynich Manuscript. The original work is believed to have probably been written in the very early 1400's, although even that is uncertain. Over the centuries the book has moved around the world from owner to owner.

In 1969 it was given to the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Yale University where it remains today, still being studied. Yale has scanned each page perfectly to produce this superb copy of the original. It still mystifies all who see it today. Well worth every penny of the price.

Book came as advertised. The binding and pages are high-quality from what I can tell, which I suppose justifies the higher price point for the book. This will be a nice addition to any weird book collection.

Yes, you can see the whole thing online at the Yale Library where it is stored. But having the physical book in hand adds a different dimension to studying this enigma. The printing is super clear and the foldout aspect is really a nice benefit. If you are fascinated with the Voynich Manuscript and don't have a physical copy, this is the one to get!

I've always been fascinated by this manuscript and the many questions its existence and history provoke. Knowing this, I bought this book as a gift for a friend who shows similar interest in the manuscript. The book itself is well-built (I see other reviews saying the pages and build feel cheap, but I'm not sure if I was just lucky in how my copy came), and the illustrations are absolutely beautiful. This being said, I feel there's one important thing to note for anyone looking to pick this up; This is NOT a book you should buy if your intentions are further studying the manuscript. If you're content with having a brief introduction to the book's history and study over the years, then this book delivers quite well.. but if you're looking for something of an "in-depth analysis" of the manuscript, then you may be disappointed to find this book contains 90% illustrations with very little substance/preface describing them. This is why I say this book is a 100% buy if you wish to own a physical version the manuscript as a novelty or a gift, but wouldn't feel confident in recommending it for anything else.

With it being unknown language my not even two year old daughter is drawn to this book. She loves books of all sorts but doesn’t usually sit and actually look at them for more then 30 seconds my daughter sat there for almost 30 minutes and actually looked as though she was reading the page like fingers on line following it and enjoying it. Anyone else have any experience with this?

This oversized, hardcover reprint of Beinecke MS 408, commonly known as the Voynich Manuscript after Wilfrid Voynich who purchased it in 1912, makes for a nice addition to anyone's collection. As Raymond Clemens writes in the preface, "This facsimile strives to reproduce as much of the experience of leafing through the original as possible. Each photograph in the facsimile section is reproduced at roughly the same size as the original page in the Voynich Manuscript" (pg. xvi). The essays following the enigmatic fifteenth century manuscript examine the earliest owners, Voynich the buyer, physical findings, cryptographic attempts, alchemical traditions, and the world's most mysterious manuscript, along with a chronology of the document. Deborah Hakrness, author of the introduction, writes, "This collections of essays, and the facsimile of the Voynich Manuscript that accompanies it, do not attempt to arrive at definitive answers to the many perplexing questions that remain about the text. Instead, they invite the reader to join us at the heart of the mystery as we strive to better understand this complex book and its history" (pg. ix). Those interested in the esoteric or bizarre will find this a great addition to their collection.

Een prachtige uitgave!

...I'm almost certain it must be for a different book. The one here is an authorised edition produced by the university itself. It contains life-sized scans of every single page of the Manuscript, printed in full colour on silky, heavy-stock paper (with margins to make notes if you like!).

It also features ingenious multi-page fold-outs that replicate those in the Manuscript, and has several excellent essays on how the MS was found, how it was made and carbon-dated, the possible meanings and so on.

In short, it's about as close as you'll get to looking at the Manuscript first-hand. I have nothing to do with the book - apart from having just bought it - but I think it's useful to point all this out.

Sensacional e os textos sai informativos e esclarecedores, inclusive nos conduzindo a outros livros, aprofundando a pesquisa. A ediçao em fac simile é otima, incluindo as páginas duplas e triplas!!

Ein empfehlenswertes Buch für alle, die sich für Geheimschriften interessieren, unabhängig davon ob es sich hier wirklich um eine echte Geheimschrift handelt, hinter der sich ein Text verbirgt oder ob es sich nur eine künstlerische Spielerei handelt.

I was a little afraid about the quality but the book imager fullfil my expectations by far.

I removed 1 star because binding was not so excellent.