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Multispectral Imaging and the Voynich Manuscript
(with thanks to René Zandbergen, Ray Clemens, Roger Easton, Claire Bowern, Bill Endres, and the curatorial and conservation staff at the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library) I have some exc…
I have carefully compared these letters to the handwriting of everyone known – or thought – to have been connected with the manuscript in the 16th and 17th century, including: Carl Widemann, his colleague Leonhard Rauwolf, Emperor Rudolf II, Jacobus Sinapius, Georg Baresch, Marcus Marci, and Athanasius Kircher. What’s intriguing about the multispectral image is how similar colors respond to the exposure and processing in drastically different ways – the torquoise glows bright yellow, while the green appears light blue. Although current imaging technology carries significantly less risk than that used a decade ago, the conservators and curators (and lawyers and insurance adjusters) at the Beinecke Library are the ones who are ultimately responsible for the care and survival of this amazing object.
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