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Have you ever found yourself on a Wikipedia deep dive on the weird side of the internet? In this show - weird thing enthusiasts Ryan and Shane take turns presenting their latest fascinations to each other covering everything unusual, unexplained, and unhinged! This week's topic: The Voynich Manuscript!
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Ryan’s ability to make Shane short circuit will never not be fantastic
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While I don't want to squash anyone's theory about the Voynich Manuscript's origins or meaning, I think that it's important to remember that this book is written not on paper but vellum. Vellum is a maternal made from animal skins and is essentially a highly processed type of leather. It was incredibly time and resource intensive to make vellum, causing the creation of this or any type of book to be fantastically expensive, and only the wealthiest members of society would be able to commission a book of this nature. Not to mention the watercolor type paint used to color in the images would also have required special dyes and pigments to create the variety of colors seen today. It's also important to remember that in the middle ages when this manuscript was made the ability to read was in and of itself a rare and precious knowledge that only certain people had access to. The commonly held theory that the manuscript is a phonetic mis-mash of multiple European languages would have required an even greater and more extensive knowledge of languages. In essence the only people with the money, resources, knowledge and connections to create such a manuscript would have to be one of the most elite people in all of Medieval Europe. Thus, I think it's safe to say that the Voynich Manuscript was not an ancient sketch book or grocery list as much fun as that might be to imagine.
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My toxic trait is thinking that I'll immediately be able to decipher it the moment i read it
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theory 6: this is just the world building journal for some medieval monk’s ttrpg campaign
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We often forget that people from way back were just like us. Who would write something like this today? A book with fictional plants, creating a new language, coming up with recipes and whatnot, and some story about women bathing in a weird pool, etc. Sounds like world building to me. So my theory is that it was written by someone creating a fantasy world in their head, either with the intention of writing a book or a play, or just for their own escapism/art.
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0:00 Met Lisa Fagin Davis today at Purdue University during her talk on parchment and manuscripts.
After the awesome talk, my daughter and I went up and asked her what she thought of this episode. Yes, she has watched it!!
She thought the episode was well done, commented that she loved the show, and said she was probably going to SUBSCRIBE TO YOUR CHANNEL!!! How cool is that?!?!
We talked to her about your show and the Vonyinch Manuscript for a long time. Lisa is incredibly witty and has an amazing sense of humor. You guys should invite her on as a guest for Puppet History!!! ❤
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You know what my favourite theory is for this? Someone who was clearly experienced with botany and pharmaceutics ended up creating a fantasy book for some roleplaying sessions, for themselves as a project, or whatever else.
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The professor showing up was so unexpected. I missed that little blue guy.
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PROFESSOR?!
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13:57 "I've never had direct contact with him before" - this is actually true, since (SPOILERS) the 'professor' Shane interacted with in S5 was technically the Substitute. I appreciate them respecting the continuity of the PH lore.
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I do love that I was half listening to this in the background and it wasn’t the musical sting that alerted me to The Professor’s arrival, but the mild difference between his voice and Shane’s 😂
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seeing the professor in the thumbnail makes me happy
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I like the implication that Shane can just manifest the Professor like a JJBA stand.
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Lisa Fagin-Davis is one of the best part of Voynich research I swear she has like a red telephone next to her bed that rings every time someone makes a new insane claim about the manuscript so she can dunk on it with lightning speed and accuracy
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I'm excessively convinced that this is the equivalent of someone's D&D notebook.
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Historians will call them "live-in companions"
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Fun fact, I took a Medieval Manuscripts course on fragmentology with Lisa Fagin Davis (it's [FEY-gin], by the way, as fun as FAH-gin is to say lol). She was a fantastic professor, we learned to recreate the order of a fragmented manuscript and assemble the pages digitally to recreate it. She also did whole day on the Voynich Manuscript, so I was thrilled to see this thumbnail! She gave us printouts of some of the pages, and showed us where we could get T-shirt with Voynich Manuscript designs haha
Loved that class! So cool to see her in this episode :) One of the best courses I took in grad school!
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About the plants in the book, keep in mind that there are many extinct species. It is very possible those were real plants once upon a time, but died out as the planet's climate changed or for other reasons. Interesting topic. I hope it gets fully translated someday, so we'll learn the book's secrets.
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There's a book called money's hidden magic, and it talks about how using some secret tehniques you can attract a lot of money, it's not some bullshit law of attraction, it's the real deal
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@tatarashi
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the professor actually wrote it for fun and to fuck with the future historians and reincarnation of the genie who wants him dead.
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