The meaning behind a 15th Century manuscript had eluded the world’s best codebreakers. Yet the code could not be cracked because it was not a code at all, but a primitive version of the Romance languages.
‘Too noisy’, ‘slippery’ and ‘losing patience’ are the subtitles to a raucous bath scene depicted on the Voynich manuscript, a 15th century, 240 page work produced by Dominican nuns for Maria of Castille, the great aunt of Catherine of Aragon.
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