The Voynich manuscript is an illustrated codex, hand-written in an unknown writing system. The book has been carbon-dated to the early 15th century (1404-1438). The manuscript is named after Wilfrid Voynich, a Polish book dealer who purchased it in 1912. Nobody has ever decoded or translated its contents. This is a large, A4-size, black and white, compiled version of the infamous manuscript. The original is in colour, and has several fold-out pages. Consequently, this version has a separate page for each section of a fold-out page, and there is one blank page necessary to keep the facing pages in the correct place.