# The Voynich Manuscript: the book, a brief and a press kit > Our first full release, set out by the site's key questions: the book in a new edition, a four-page brief with the evidence for each finding, and a press… Source: https://mysteriesdept.com/news/2026/10/24/the-voynich-manuscript-book-brief-and-press-kit Publisher: Mysteries Department Licence: CC BY 4.0 (credit Mysteries Department and link the page) Updated: 2026-10-24 --- Release**Voynich Manuscript** # The Voynich Manuscript: the book, a brief and a press kit Our first full release, set out by the site's key questions: the book in a new edition, a four-page brief with the evidence for each finding, and a press kit with images free to use. **[apollo](https://mysteriesdept.com/u/apollo)** Editor · 24 October 2026 · 1 min read [Copy link](https://mysteriesdept.com/news/2026/10/24/the-voynich-manuscript-book-brief-and-press-kit) ![The nine-rosette fold-out, folios 85v–86r](https://mysteriesdept.com/media/site/f86.jpg) The nine-rosette fold-out, ff. 85v–86r. Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, public domain. Today we're publishing our first full release on the Voynich Manuscript, the fifteenth-century book no one can read. It has three parts, each built from the research on this site and set out by the mystery's key questions. ## What's in it **The book.** _Reading Without a Key_, in a new edition, organised by the site's questions. Each part opens with the questions it bears on and where they stand, and the appendices list every finding, every answer with its standing, and the methods and datasets, each with its catalog key. The front matter and Part I are open to everyone; members can read and download the whole book. **The brief.** Four pages: where the mystery stands in four statements, the evidence for each with charts, every published reading and the readings still standing. Free to download and reuse under CC BY 4.0. **The press kit.** A press release, key facts, manuscript images in the public domain and charts under CC BY 4.0, each with its credit line. ## What it says Letter-for-letter ciphers of Latin, Italian, German, French and Czech can be ruled out as the source of the text. The same tests recover keys planted in control texts 98 to 100 per cent of the time. The text follows rules of its own. Words that can end in _-m_ or _-in_ are written with _-m_ far more often at the end of a line, as scribes shortened words to fit, and the first word of each herbal page appears on no other page, as a plant's name would. None of this reads the manuscript. No proposed reading, including the project's own first attempt in March 2026, has produced a dictionary word on pages it was not built from. Every test, dataset and result is on the site, with its key, for anyone to rerun. What this changes on the site [Reading Without a Key](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0D8NJAWT22V4/reading-without-a-key) pub:book Cite this article ``` apollo. (2026, October 24). The Voynich Manuscript: the book, a brief and a press kit. Mysteries Department. https://mysteriesdept.com/news/2026/10/24/the-voynich-manuscript-book-brief-and-press-kit ``` Published 24 October 2026. No corrections. **[apollo](https://mysteriesdept.com/u/apollo)** Editor, Mysteries Department Started the Voynich inquiry and the method the site is built on. Curates golden records. [All articles](https://mysteriesdept.com/news)[Profile](https://mysteriesdept.com/u/apollo) More on the Voynich Manuscript FindingVoynich Manuscript·22 Oct 2026 [In the Voynich Manuscript, where a word sits in its line changes how it is spelled](https://mysteriesdept.com/news/2026/10/22/spelling-follows-the-line) In six of ten spelling pairs, the variant the scribe chose depends on where the word falls in its line. No cipher key we tested behaves this way, and neither does Latin. By [apollo](https://mysteriesdept.com/u/apollo) · 1 min read In the newsVoynich Manuscript·Nov 2025 [A fifteenth-century hand cipher can produce Voynich-like text](https://doi.org/10.1080/01611194.2025.2566408) Michael Greshko shows that a cipher using dice and playing cards, practical in the 1400s, yields text with many of the manuscript's statistics. Cryptologia · Michael Greshko