![]() ![]() Running to more than 200 pages, it was bought for 600 gold ducats by Emperor Rudolph II of Germany around the end of the 16th century, and then vanished until it was acquired in 1912 by the Polish-American antiquarian bookseller Wilfrid Voynich. The enigmatic manuscript, which is dated to the 15th or 16th century, is filled with botanical, figurative and scientific drawings accompanied with undecipherable text. "The portrayals of both of these Mesoamerican species are so similar that they could have been drawn by the same artist or school of artists." "Both depictions have a large, broad, gray-to-whitish basal woody caudices with ridged bark and a portrayal of broken coarse roots that resemble toenails," write the scientists in a paper published in the journal of the American Botanical Council.
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