The Voynich Manuscript   It's been described by some scholars as the world's most 'mysterious book' - The Voynich Manuscript. Who wrote it and why? What language is it in? Could it even be a language not of this earth? It's the book no one can read, with illustrations no one can understand. Some of the best decoding minds in the world have tackled the book and all have drawn a blank - could you de-code the world's most mysterious book? By the end of this article, you'll get precisely that opportunity as we'll show you how and where to download a good quality copy for free with high resolution images.

But back to the book itself; through the use of radiocarbon dating it was dated this week by scholars to the early 1400's, but there any similarity to texts of the period disappears. Strange letters and words flow as though handwritten in a leisurely afternoon whilst the illustrations take on a surreal almost 'alien' like appearance. No one has ever managed to successfully decode even a passage of the book, but the vast majority of those who have tried, acknowledge that it has a coherent structure and it should therefore be possible to decode it.

Below are some of the fascinating images and illustrations which can be found between its covers...could you be the first to crack this unknown language and finally enlighten us all? (These are scaled down images for the internet, the images in the PDF are larger and easy to see and read).

No one has yet understood any of the Voynich Manuscript

Some of the book clearly deals with Vegetation whilst other parts deal with Astronomy

Can you decipher the world's most mysterious book?

The book is currently owned by Yale University and is available for download free in PDF format by clicking on this link Internet Archive and then selecting the format you would like it in (PDF - Kindle etc).

A Planet Flipside discussion on the Voynich Manuscript can be found by clicking on this link Planet Flipside