ASMR The Voynich Manuscript (soft spoken)
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- čas přidán 5. 09. 2023
- Welcome back, everyone! We're starting off into autumn with another medieval mystery: the Voynich manuscript. It's a codex, presumably from the early 15th century, written in a script that no one has been able to decode convincingly. The images of fauna, stars and people are just as mysterious as the text...
The book is called "Das Voynich Manuskript", by Vera Pache and Klaus Schmeh. The publisher, Favoriten Presse, has many other beautiful art books in a similar style, particularly on flora and fauna (birds of Central Europe, blossoming cacti, a historical atlas of medicinal plants...) Link is at the start of the video!
For German speakers, I can recommend an ORF documentary: Mythos Geschichte - Das Voynich Rätsel
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That's absolutely fascinating. I love the idea that people have been puzzling for centuries over what could be a 600 year old practical joke.
This is now my canon interpretation of this book!
This is a book I never thought I'd see on this channel.. This alongside the Amon Amarth reference, I continue to be amazed at your content and its breadth.
This feels like the lore books we have today for stuff like Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, D&D, etc. Maybe it’s just my half-asleep haze, but it would be cool if there were fantasy universe stories like that in the past
What a curious item! Somehow, I get the feeling that the secrets it holds will never be truly deciphered - though I wouldn't mind being proven wrong!
Yeah, that's my impression too. It's really uncomfortable though haha, I would love to have some kind of answer as to what or why it is.
@@MelangeASMR I suppose the best we can hope for at this point is the invention of time travel! Ha ha ha!
If I remember correctly they couldn't decipher it because it was written in an obscure 13th version of a regional dialect of Turkish. I believe there was a guy whose father spoke it so he is now working on translating it. But even before this we were still able to read a few words (like the name of the months for instance)
You always continue to find new and more interesting topics, thank you
This one really was a lucky find. Such a fascinating topic!
I’ve always thought that this book is a Dungeon Master’s journal for an incredible D&D game.
It's a testament to the topics you find that I have to keep rewatching your videos - I fall asleep too soon, and have to go back again and again to actually learn the interesting stuff! 😂
This reminds me of the movie”Being There” with Peter Sellers. Maybe a very artistic mentally disturbed monk who was kept busy by his superiors with this book. As an artist I recognise how some artists will make nonsensical sketchbooks and there are comparative elements to this.
Awesome video, don’t ever stop making these!
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OMG you wouldn’t believe the sheer joy and excitement I felt when I got the notification you uploaded a new video, and the subject matter is absolutely fascinating 🤗
You, dear Melange, have truly been missed!
I’m happy you’re back. I have been wearing out your sky atlas and Great Lakes videos. Haha.
I saw this thumbnail in my recommended and I was like "no way Melange did a video on the VM" im excited to watch this !!!
I've always wanted a copy of this. I'll drop some hints for Christmas.
Really relaxing with an interesting concept. Historical mysteries are so fun. Beautiful book as well. Everyone loves big books! ^_^
Hooray! I’m so happy you are back! Really glad you enjoyed your vacation. You’ve been missed! 😀
This is my favorite kind of content and from one of my favorite creators!! So pumped (and relaxed)
I have never heard of this before! Thanks for enlightening me, nice to have you back and I hope you had a lovely break.
So pleased that you're still putting out these videos. Thanks!
Welcome back! Have not watched thus video, but cannot wait. I first heard about the Voynich manuscript through a favorite author Deb Harkness who wrote A Discovery of Witches which is part of the All Souls Trilogy. A great work of fiction. The Voynich is mentioned in connection with Rudolf II.
I haven’t started the video yet but I am super excited! This is a topic that’s been fascinating me for awhile and so glad you’re taking it on😊
Welcome back!! 🤗 missed you! I’m glad you enjoyed your summer holiday. Your videos provide me with such a sense of calmness and relaxation when I need it. I thank you so much for that 🤍
Also, I literally kicked my feet in delight when I saw this pop up in my subscription feed. I hope you had a great break and I am very excited to have you back!
Whenever I watch this video I always think of this strange book called The Secret: A Treasure Hunt. Its supposed to contain poems and pictures and if you match them up and solve the clues its supposed to lead to something you turn in for like a priceless gem from the authors estate. Only three of the 12 have ever been found.
Love your channel! Its so soothing and I learn something.
YOURE BACK!!!!!! I've been looking forward to this since you left - I hope you had a good break!
What a beautiful and fascinating item
Thank you, Ms 🙏
So glad you’re back
I’m very pleased that you had a good break Melange, but so glad to have you back. Wednesday evenings haven’t been the same! And what a wonderful topic to return with. Very excited that this time in two weeks I will be in Austria - visiting Salzburg and Vienna. Have been revisiting some of your past videos, so that I can impress my friends with my knowledge 😂
Loved this. What a fun mystery, and so well presented!
Welcome back melange! That’s a lovely illustrated book.
I'm so glad you're back 😭 I didn't know, although suspected and hoped, you were away for vacation!
Yay!! Finally!! Welcome back 😊 hope you had a wonderful break!
Hey! It was great, thank you. Honestly, I wouldn't mind another month long vacation haha
Glad you enjoyed your summer break. Wonderful to see your reappearance.
The concept and mystery behind this Voynich manuscript is fascinating. Really like the alchemical connotations it reveals. Herbology and astrotheology are core Aryan practices is what immediately came to mind for me. Will explore more into this manuscript. Had not heard of it before so Thank You for revealing its mysteries. Seems to have its roots in central Europe - you guys have so many cultural and historical riches to explore on your doorstep. Really like this alchemical theme that seems to be emerging out of Prague with linkages to the English via John Dee and Company. Really beautiful book - Great Stuff 🪷✨🙏
-- Hello Melange! Welcome back! It is wonderful to see a new video from you! I look forward to relaxing to this later today after I have finished work. 😊❤️
Hello! I hope your work day goes by quickly and you're to relax 💖
Another wonderfully relaxing and informative video. Thank you
omg i just started going down the voynich manuscript rabbit hole on sunday!! this is perfect timing
Yay more Melange! Welcome back!
What I love aside from the chance pairing of cream of the crop ASMR whispering and immaculate manicures, is that the content is often educational, too. Outstanding💥
Incredible video. You’re my favorite asmr-tist
That was a toss up between being fascinated by the subject matter and falling asleep, and being tired won out in the end. 😅
beautiful and fascinating! 📖
I'm glad you're back. I love your videos so much.
I think there's a pretty good chance that this was an autistic person's special interest journal
How did you end up with such nice hands? You're definitely the right person to be making these videos!
Welcome back ❤
Thank you so much! I was transfixed. ♥
I am so excited for this one, but also sleepy 😅
I have this one! Fun share, thank you.
that's such a wonderful book and it's wild how many languages that have died away just aren't desipherable
This was delightfully educational. Thanks! 👍🏻
I was so intrigued that I ended up buying the English version of the book 😂
I just came here to say YAY! Can´t watch right now but I can´t wait. You were missed.
I hope you won't have to wait too long! It's so nice to see all the commentators again :)
I hope you enjoyed your well-deserved vacation. Heard is hot up there but probably not so much in Austria. Anyway, welcome back.
This was so relaxing but now my sleepy brain is absolutely haunted by this mystery.
Ohhh sehr interessant! Ich hoffe es kommt dazu auch eine deutsche Version 😊
Leider, das deutsche Video dieses Monat wird zu Tarot-Karten aus dem Mittelalter. Ich hab in der Info-Box aber eine deutsche Doku verlinkt - zwar nicht ASMR, aber hoffentlich vom Infomaterial auch akzeptabel :)
@@MelangeASMR Tarot-Karten sind nicht so ganz mein Thema muss ich zugeben. Aber du machst immer so gute Videos, dass ich sie mir trotzdem anschaue :) Angenehme Stimme und so schön ruhig ohne hektik oder dergleichen 😊 Danke für den Tipp! Dann werde ich mal bei der Doku vorbeischauen :)
so nice :)
I missed you! ;)
Knowing the golem stories, it somehow doesn't surprise me that this book comes form Prague.
Things I think you should take careful note of:
- It probably actually does not come from Prague, it just found its way there at a point in history when a rich person known to be interested in all manner of unusual things happened to live there. If it truly is from the first half of the 15th century, the situation in Prague at that point in history was considerably different from what it was during the reign of Rudolf II.
- While the most famous Golem story nowadays is linked to Prague, it's not the only one, nor the chronologically first one.
Regards,
a Czech who is, to be honest, quite annoyed by popular stereotypes that erase historical nuance
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Can't wait to watch this evening! Your ring is beautiful, what type of stone is it? 💚
Thank you! It's actually origami paper under glass, from Sophie Soufflé: www.sophiesouffle.at/
They had a stand at the Christmas market last year and it was all so gorgeous!
Melange, have you read Shadow of Night by Deborah Harkness? The Voynich, John Dee, Edward Kelly and Emperor Rudolph are characters in it. Quite fun!
I was just thinking about you yesterday and hoping to see a video soon and here you are! Yay!
This immediately made me think of the "Otherside Picnic" manga. It's about a couple of college kids who stumble into (and back out of) this weird alternate dimension populated with lots of creepypasta-type monsters and plants that don't exist in our world, and one of the ways they know they're headed over there is that the writing on signs and things suddenly becomes illegible. If they take a book from this side in with them, it won't be readable while they're there; if they bring back a book that's legible over there, the writing is just gibberish once it's here. One researcher intentionally encoded her work notes by writing them down while she was in the other dimension. ...So perhaps that book was written in an alternate dimension and found its way to ours somehow. 😋 (And if that is in fact the case, actually reading it could affect the reader's sanity in some very bad ways, so it may be all for the best that we can't.)
Jokes aside, while it is frustrating not to be able to read it, I kinda like the fact that people have been trying to figure it out for centuries and no one's managed. That's a very hard thing to pull off, so if it is some sort of code, I have all kinds of respect for whoever came up with it.
Imagine the dude who wrote this was just like
"This is gon' troll em so hard 💀"
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Wow what a beautiful book! I have never heard about this manuscript. Incredible that the code hasn't been cracked yet and it doesn't seem so old. maybe AI can help us to discover more. And it looks like that the tower is effectively Venetian style, which can still be found in Verona to Venezia area.Herzlichen Dank for showing this🙏🌻PS what a beautiful ring you are wearing!
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Part of me hopes that it gets translated some day, but part of me loves the idea of a couple of boozed-up monks deciding to pull a giant hoax on the world and then still running with the idea after they'd sobered up.
Mach doch bitte auch eine deutschsprachige Version 🙏
Some monk conducted an autopsy of the corpse (the kidneys, blood vessels and lungs are clearly visible in the drawings), also studied and sketched biological cells under a microscope (he needed to invent it). All this he tried to disguise with herbs and horoscopes.
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the reason theres so many ubeskistan women is that polygamy was the lifestyle. it was normal for a man to have 3,4 or more wives. so it was one of the kawaja's(holy mans) job to discern different types of women to settle domestic disputes, remove hexes and such. when the arabs started conquering the sindh region (700ad) they eliminated the learned sinhdi scholars and kawajis, burned there books and forced the arabic language in there region. subsequantly it became the official language and in currant times known as the sindh language (descendant language of landa script) which is currantly written in perso-arabic script.
Looks like a book from an alien.
How is it possible that you're interested in virtually all the same things I am?
We just have impeccable taste!!
I hope it is just a fantasy story some monk or scholar or noble decided to write in their own made up language to keep themselves entertained 👀
Maybe an AI could decipher it...
Your just talking. Where's the asmr? .... try whispering
How do you mean??