The Voynich Manuscript

The Cipher and The Compendium

Jessica Lorraine Scott (Dunn)

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Glyph Publishing
15 May 2025

Language Teaching (non-ELT); Coding theory & cryptology; Asian history; Data encryption

Series: The Voynich Manuscript Compendium

In this expanded and definitive edition, Jessica Scott (Dunn) reveals the full decipherment of the Voynich Manuscript - one of history's most enduring mysteries.

Through rigorous paleographic analysis, linguistic analysis, and cross-cultural medical anthropology, Scott demonstrates that the manuscript is a 15th-century Sowa Rigpa astro-botanical compendium, composed in encoded Latin by the Swiss-German monk Clemens Specker following his travels through the Himalayas, Persia, Indonesia, and East Africa.

The work shows the Voynich Manuscript to be a complete system of curative medicine, uniting Tibetan Sowa Rigpa, Ayurveda, Persian and Abyssinian Traditional Medicine, and Traditional Chinese Medicine, syncretized with Christian monastic healing traditions within a single Wheel of Cures.

This new edition introduces:

The articulated Law of Time, linking humoral balance to celestial rhythm and seasonal timing. An exposition of Kalachakra principles underlying the Codex Constellarium Aster. Updated geographic analyses tracing Clemens Specker's route from Europe through the Swat Highlands to Yunnan. Commentary on the spiritual labor of healing, showing how garden tending was viewed as sacred work in both Buddhist and Christian cosmologies.

In October 2025, the first edition of this research was formally presented to His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama at Dharamsala, India - an historic moment reconnecting this rediscovered medical text to its living Tibetan lineage.

Scholarly yet accessible, The Voynich Manuscript: The Cipher and the Compendium restores the Voynich Manuscript to its rightful place: a bridge between East and West, science and faith, earth and stars.

By: Jessica Lorraine Scott (Dunn)
Imprint: Glyph Publishing
Edition: 2nd The Dalai Lama ed.
Volume: 1
Dimensions: Height: 279mm, Width: 216mm, Spine: 25mm
Weight: 1.356kg
ISBN: 9798218820404
Series: The Voynich Manuscript Compendium
Pages: 332
Publication Date: 15 May 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

The author is from the Carolinas and has had the privilege of growing up overseas in Panama. She has a long-time love of cultural anthropology, ethnography, linguistics, the paranormal, and archaeology. She also has a background in security, IT, and enjoys building computers. She is a single mother, cancer survivor, abuse and assault survivor, and owns a small business. She is passionate about combatting the following: human trafficking, smuggling, child exploitation, domestic violence, public and private corruption, and perverse social deviance. She currently possesses an associate's degree in liberal arts and will graduate in with a bachelor's degree in general studies with a concentration in Criminal Justice. A master's is on the horizon. BH. Skal. Tashi Delek.

Reviews for The Voynich Manuscript: The Cipher and The Compendium

""This a very well researched approach to deciphering the voynich manuscript. I appreciate that the author gives many examples of reasoning when discussing their theories, opposed to forcing puzzle pieces to fit. If you are looking for historical research surrounding this manuscript, you will enjoy this book. If you are looking to research the more mystical properties of the manuscript, you will enjoy this book. I feel that the author took a very logical and grounded approach to their research & decipherment. They give examples of entirely deciphered paragraphs, and the tools to decipher yourself if you so choose. The evidence the author gives fits in very well with the historical context in which the voynich would have been written. In short, this is the most concise and thorough research I have personally found on the voynich manuscript, and would highly recommend to anyone trying to unravel its mysteries, and to anyone who loves a good historical mystery in general."" - Alissa ""I'm a cryptographer with a special interest in ancient Hebrew mathematics. Scott's decipherment of the Voynich MS is first rate academic sleuthing. I recommend Scott's book and will be unsurprised when it appears on the required college reading list for this subject area. Well done!"" - Gabriel ""My mom spent 1 year and a half on this and I'm so proud of her. She always still talks about it every day and whenever we see a plant she will say ""It's a Voynich plant!"" And we will all laugh, when it's her time to go to the other sides hopefully she will meet the author of the voynich manuscript. I will put voynich flowers on her gravee! PERIODT!! SLAYYYY!! GIRL RAWR!! YOU ATE!!"" - Author's daughter