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Grimoire, herbal, cryptographic enigma or elegant artwork – whatever the Voynich Manuscript may be, it's once again making small, cryptic waves. Most exciting is this fantastic Flickr set of <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/3e/sets/72157600089509882/?page=2" target="_blank">hi-res scans</a> of the 16h century tome.

Meanwhile furthe evidence is emerging that it is <a href="http://www.cs.keele.ac.uk/km/blog/?p=18" target="_blank">probably a hoax</a>. I would ask, a hoax what? It  certainly is the <em>real</em> Voynich manuscript!

<em>"A breakthrough comes with the publication in Cryptologia this April of an article by Austrian researcher Dr Andreas Schinner, a theoretical physicist and software engineer at the Johannes Kepler University. Schinner analysed the text of the manuscript using specialist statistics capable of handling quasi-stochastic distributions, and found that the manuscript’s statistical properties were consistent with a hoax consisting of meaningless gibberish produced using Rugg’s method or a similar quasi-random method." </em><a href="http://www.cs.keele.ac.uk/km/blog/?p=18" target="_blank">more</a>