The Voynich Manuscript: Origin and Radiocarbon Dating

Rene Zandbergen's voynich.nu is the most established specialist reference site for the Voynich Manuscript, maintained for years by a researcher who has worked closely with the manuscript's holding library, Yale's Beinecke Rare Book Library, and who is a recognized figure in the small community of serious Voynich researchers. This particular page summarizes an independently peer reviewed result, the University of Arizona's 2009 AMS radiocarbon dating of the manuscript's parchment to 1404 to 1438 CE at 95 percent probability, rather than presenting an unreviewed personal theory. Its strength is that it accurately relays a genuine scientific dating result and is kept current as new findings appear. Its limit is that it is a personal specialist website rather than a peer reviewed publication itself, so the underlying radiocarbon study is the stronger citation for the dating claim specifically, while this page is the right source for tracking the state of Voynich scholarship generally.