The Alphabet*
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Task:
A project for University was based on the Alphabet and of symbols.
The
breif was very open but we had to look into the forms of alphbets andthere
stuctures. During my reserch I came across the Voynich manuscript.
The Voynich manuscript
is a mysterious illustrated book with incomprehensible contents. It
is thought to have been written between approximately 1450 and 1520
by an unknown author in an unidentified script and unintelligible
language.
Over its recorded
existence, the Voynich manuscript has been the object of intense study
by many professional and amateur cryptographers, including some top
American and British codebreakers of World War II fame (all of whom
failed to decipher a single word). This string of failures has turned
the Voynich manuscript into a famous subject of historical cryptology,
but it has also given weight to the theory that the book is simply
an elaborate hoax a meaningless sequence of arbitrary symbols.
(Wikipedia)
From this I took some
of the letters and made a sellection of prints. These were scanned,
bound and presented in a document.
Click
here to see a video of the pages.
Below: Images from the book.










Pages from the book

Printing in the studio

Lino Origanal