Voynich Manuscript

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The Voynich manuscript was written in a language that men through the centuries have tried to decode to no avail. The only idea anyone has of its origin are the drawings found on various pages.The Voynich manuscript is an illustrated codex hand-written in an unknown writing system. The vellum on which it is written has been carbon-dated to the early 15th century, and it may have been composed in Northern Italy during the Italian Renaissance. 
Script: unknown; possibly it is an invented script; very small number of words found in Latin script
Place of origin: possibly Northern Italy
Date: unknown, parchment dated to early 15th century
Also known as: Beinecke MS 408
Size: ≈ 23,5 cm × 16,2 cm × 5 cm
Other: famous cryptography case which has not been solved or deciphered 
The Voynich Manuscript has been reliably dated to mere decades before the invention of the printing press, so it's likely that its peculiar blend of plagiarism and curation was a dying format. Once people could just reproduce several copies of the original Trotula or De Balneis Puteolanis on a printing press, there would have been no need for scribes to painstakingly collate its information into a new, handwritten volume.

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