Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis speaks with Aylin about digital paleography and the Voynich Manuscript (Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, MS 408). By using DigiPal to compare the glyphs, Dr. Davis discovered that this undeciphered manuscript was originally written by five different scribes. 

Details: https://podcast.digitalmedievalist.org/episode-2-voynich-scribes
Transcript: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jAVbZR0bVuvO8B5OEXKY_AIGuXQHnZTc/view?usp=sharing

Theme music by TeknoAXE (“Chiptune Nobility,” CC BY 4.0). Background music by TeknoAXE (“Lowly Tavern Bard – Fall is Upon Us,” CC BY 4.0) and Random Mind (“Minstrel Dance,” CC0). 

Dr. Davis’s research is published in Manuscript Studies (https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/42257). Starting in May 2021, this article will be available for free at https://repository.upenn.edu/mss_sims.

Recorded on April 2, 2020. Produced and transcribed by Aylin Malcolm.

Episode 2: Scribes of the Voynich Manuscript (Lisa Fagin Davis)

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Episode 2: Scribes of the Voynich Manuscript (Lisa Fagin Davis)

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