Read a manuscript

Load the manuscript file and give the key it was written with: the text comes back exactly as it went in, letter for letter. With any other key there is nothing to read.

The manuscript Choose the .txt file or drop it here
The .txt file you kept when the book was written (the PDF cannot be read back). It must be unaltered: moving words within a page does no harm, but adding, removing or changing a word breaks the reading.

Or paste the manuscript

Key

Everything happens in your browser: the manuscript and the key never leave this computer. The first time, the page fetches about 27 MB (Python and its libraries); reading takes a few seconds.

A sun with red and blue rays inside rings of stars, from the astronomical section of the Voynich manuscript — Beinecke MS 408, f. 67r

Read a manuscript

The text