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[[File:AC4 Voynich Manuscript.png|thumb|250px|Voynich manuscript]]
The '''Voynich manuscript''' is an illustrated codex hand-written in an unknown writing system. Likely written during the early 15th century in [[Italy]], the manuscript is named after book dealer {{Wiki|Wilfrid Voynich}}, who purchased it in 1912.
The '''Voynich manuscript''', named for antiquarian {{wiki|Wilfrid Voynich}}, is an illustrated codex hand-written in an encrypted cursive variant<ref>''[[Assassin's Creed: Valhalla]]'' – [[Layla Hassan's personal files]]: PRE_trslt_Canterbury.odt <v. 1 by ahenry></ref> of the [[Isu]] [[Isu script|language]].<ref name="ACRG">''[[Assassin's Creed: Rogue]]''</ref>


During the early 18th century, the manuscript was in the possession of Governor {{Wiki|Peter Beckford}} of [[Jamaica]]. After it was taken from the Beckford estate, its pages were scattered across the [[Caribbean]]. Between 1715 and 1722, the [[Piracy|pirate]] [[Assassins|Assassin]] [[Edward Kenway]] collected the manuscript pages.
==Owners==
;Complete
*[[Order of the Ancients]] (860s)<ref name="ACMir">''[[Assassin's Creed: Mirage]]''</ref>
*[[Zahra]] (860s)<ref name="ACMir" />
*[[Hunayn ibn Ishaq]] (860s)<ref name="ACMir" />
*[[Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor]] (1599 – 1612)<ref>{{WP|Voynich manuscript}}</ref><ref name="AC4">''[[Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag]]''</ref>
;Pages
*[[Vasco da Gama]] (likely; late 15th century – early 16th century)<ref>''[[Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag]]'' – [[Database: "De Gama Diary Extract"]]</ref>
*[[Peter Beckford]] (late 17th century – early 18th century)<ref name="AC4" />
*[[Edward Kenway]] (1715 – 1722)<ref name="AC4" />
*[[François Mackandal]] (? – 21 November 1751)<ref name="ACRG" />
*[[Lawrence Washington]] (21 November 1751 – July 1752)<ref name="ACRG" />
*[[James Wardrop]] (July 1752 – July 1754)<ref name="ACRG" />
*[[American Brotherhood of Assassins|Colonial Assassins]] (July 1754 – 1756)<ref name="ACRG" />
*[[Shay Cormac]] (1756)<ref name="ACRG" />
*[[George Monro]] (1756 – August 1757)<ref name="ACRG" />
*Shay Cormac (August 1757 – 3 November 1757)<ref name="ACRG" />
*George Monro (3 November 1757)<ref name="ACRG" />
*Colonial Assassins (3 November 1757 – October 1759)<ref name="ACRG" />
*[[Liam O'Brien]] (October 1759 – March 1760)<ref name="ACRG" />
*Shay Cormac (March 1760 – ?)<ref name="ACRG" />
*[[Arbaaz Mir]] (June 1839)<ref name="Brahman">''[[Assassin's Creed: Brahman]]''</ref>
*[[Hamid (Amritsar)|Hamid]] (June 1839 – ?)<ref name="Brahman" />
*[[Templars]] (1868 – 1872)<ref name="Locus">''[[Assassin's Creed: Last Descendants – Locus]]''</ref>
*[[Horace Greeley]] (1872)<ref name="Locus"/>
*[[Alice (Templar)|Alice]] (1872)<ref name="Locus"/>


In 2013, [[Abstergo Industries]] wanted the employees of [[Abstergo Entertainment]] to keep an eye out for the Voynich manuscript during the [[Animus]] sessions of the [[Sample 17 Project]].
==History==
===Early history===
{{Quote|The way Zahra talks, it's more of an artifact or relic than a book. I lied about my progress so they wouldn't kill me. I can't read a single word. I don't even know if it's a language.|Hunayn ibn Ishaq telling Basim about the manuscript, 860s.|Assassin's Creed: Mirage|Follow the Fiery Trail}}
Commonly, though erroneously, believed to have been written around 1405, the artifact was created long before.<ref name="AC4" /> By the 860s, it was kept in the [[House of Wisdom]] in [[Baghdad]]. The [[Order of the Ancients]] led by [[Fazil Fahim al-Kemsa]] sought to create a [[Alruh|device]] with [[Piece of Eden|artifacts]] found at a [[Excavation Site, Baghdad|dig site]] southwest of the city, and wished to use knowledge from the manuscript to do so.<ref name="Fiery Trail">''[[Assassin's Creed: Mirage]]'' – [[Follow the Fiery Trail]]</ref>


==Reference==
[[File:ACMir Follow the Fiery Trail 9.png|left|thumb|250px|Basim and Hunayn ibn Ishaq trying to read the manuscript]]
*''[[Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag]]''
Fazil tasked his fellow Order member [[Zahra]] with stealing the manuscript, which she did after murdering the library's caretaker. Discovering the book to be written in an ancient language, Zahra kidnapped the translator [[Hunayn ibn Ishaq]], who was one of the finest translators in the [[Abbasid Caliphate|Caliphate]], and forced him to attempt a translation at the [[Scriptorium]]. However, even with his skills, he was not able to read or decode the manuscript.<ref name="Fiery Trail" />
 
Hunayn was later rescued by the [[Hidden One]] [[Basim ibn Ishaq]] and revealed the manuscript's content which no one had seen before. After Hunayn left to return home, Basim made the decision to leave the book behind before leaving as well.<ref name="Fiery Trail" />
 
By the late 16th century, Emperor [[Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor|Rudolf II]] of the [[Holy Roman Empire]] was the last known owner of the complete manuscript, although four of the manuscript's pages eventually wound up in the hands of Governor [[Peter Beckford]] of [[Jamaica]] by the early 18th century. After they were taken from the Beckford estate, the pages were scattered across the [[Caribbean]], until they were eventually collected by the [[Piracy|pirate]]-turned-[[Assassins|Assassin]] [[Edward Kenway]] between 1715 and 1722.<ref name="AC4" />
 
===American Colonies===
{{Quote|The Manuscript the Assassins sought has been in my possession for some time. I reclaimed it when my men found you marooned. The Grand Master himself charged me to discover its meaning, a task I regret I have failed to complete. I leave it in your charge, Master Cormac. There is no one else I trust more.|George Monro entrusting the manuscript to Shay Cormac. 1757.|Assassin's Creed: Rogue|Honour and Loyalty}}
In the following decades, the Assassins and [[Templars]] alike learned of the connection between the manuscript and the mysterious [[Precursor box]], one of the only devices that could translate its incomprehensible text. By November 1751, both the box and several pages of the manuscript were owned by [[François Mackandal]], the [[Mentor]] of the [[Saint-Domingue Brotherhood of Assassins|Saint-Domingue Assassins]]. Using the two artifacts in tandem, Mackandal discovered the location of an [[Port-au-Prince Temple|Isu temple]] near [[Port-au-Prince]] and sent one of his Assassins, [[Vendredi]], to explore it and retrieve its [[Piece of Eden]].<ref name="Lessons and Revelations">''[[Assassin's Creed: Rogue]]'' – [[Lessons and Revelations]]</ref>
 
[[File:We The People 9.png|thumb|250px|Shay taking the manuscript from a dying James Wardrop]]
When Vendredi removed the Piece at the heart of the temple, he triggered a [[1751 Port-au-Prince earthquake|devastating earthquake]] and became trapped under rubble from the temple's destruction. The Templar [[Lawrence Washington]], who had followed Vendredi, killed the trapped Assassin after interrogating him to learn the location of Mackandal's camp. He subsequently infiltrated it and stole the Precursor box and the manuscript before fleeing back to the [[United States|Thirteen Colonies]].<ref name="War Letter">''[[Assassin's Creed: Rogue]]'' – [[War Letters]]: "Family Vacation"</ref>
 
In July 1752, Washington held a meeting with his fellow Templars at his [[Mount Vernon]] estate in [[Virginia (state)|Virginia]], where he entrusted the box and the manuscript to [[Samuel Smith]] and [[James Wardrop]], respectively. The [[American Brotherhood of Assassins|Colonial Assassin]] [[Shay Cormac]] killed Washington shortly after the meeting<ref name="Invitation">''[[Assassin's Creed: Rogue]]'' – [[By Invitation Only]]</ref> and, two years later, also assassinated Smith and Wardrop, reclaiming the two artifacts for the Brotherhood.<ref name="Victory">''[[Assassin's Creed: Rogue]]'' – [[One Little Victory]]</ref><ref name="We the People">''[[Assassin's Creed: Rogue]]'' – [[We the People]]</ref>
 
In July 1754, [[Benjamin Franklin]] became the second known person to properly use the Precursor box and the manuscript in tandem, after Shay and his fellow Assassin [[Hope Jensen]] requested his help to unravel the box's secrets. Electrifying the box with lighting, Franklin was able to generate a [[Isu map|map]] of the world indicating the locations of several [[Seismic Temple|Seismic Temples]], including one in [[Haiti]] and [[Lisbon Temple|another]] in [[Lisbon]], [[Portugal]].<ref name="Fiat Lux">''[[Assassin's Creed: Rogue]]'' – [[Fiat Lux]]</ref>
 
[[File:Freewill 7.png|left|thumb|250px|Shay stealing the manuscript from the Assassins]]
Following this, the manuscript remained in the Colonial Assassins' possession until 1756, when Shay returned to the [[Davenport Homestead]] after his mission to retrieve the Piece of Eden from the Lisbon Temple. As his tampering with the temple had caused an [[1755 Lisbon earthquake|earthquake]] similar to the one in Port-au-Prince, Shay wished to prevent the Assassins from finding any more temples and endangering more innocent lives. To achieve this, he resolved to steal the manuscript from the Homestead, but during his theft he was caught by the Assassins and chased to a cliff, where he was left for dead after being shot by [[Louis-Joseph Gaultier, Chevalier de la Vérendrye|Louis-Joseph Gaultier]].<ref name="Freewill">''[[Assassin's Creed: Rogue]]'' – [[Freewill]]</ref>
 
Shay was rescued by Colonel [[George Monro]], who left him in the care of [[Barry Finnegan|Barry]] and [[Cassidy Finnegan]] and took the manuscript for himself.<ref name="Color of Right">''[[Assassin's Creed: Rogue]]'' – [[The Color of Right]]</ref> Monro was then tasked by the [[American Rite of the Templar Order|Colonial Templars]]' [[Grand Master of the Templar Order|Grand Master]], [[Haytham Kenway]], to uncover the book's secrets, but was unable to do so. In August 1757, after Shay had proven his loyalty to the Templars, Monro gave him back the manuscript and told him about his mission from Haytham, asking for his help in deciphering the book.<ref name="Honour and Loyalty">''[[Assassin's Creed: Rogue]]'' – [[Honour and Loyalty]]</ref>
 
[[File:Armour And Sword 3.png|thumb|250px|Shay giving the manuscript to Monro]]
Later that year, during an attack on [[Albany]], Shay attempted to save Monro from the Assassin [[Kesegowaase]] and his native allies. Once he accomplished this, Shay gave Monro the manuscript, claiming that it was safer in his hands, and sent him to the ''[[Morrigan]]'' while he stayed at [[Fort Frederick]] and battled Kesegowaase. After Shay mortally wounded him, Kesegowaase revealed with his dying words that [[Liam O'Brien]] had killed Monro and taken the manuscript.<ref name="Scars">''[[Assassin's Creed: Rogue]]'' – [[Scars]]</ref>
 
In October 1759, the Assassins were making preparations for an expedition to find [[Arctic Temple|another Seismic Temple]], after Hope Jensen had managed to replicate Benjamin Franklin's experiment with the Precursor box and used the manuscript to determine the temple's location.<ref name="Steel">''[[Assassin's Creed: Rogue]]'' – [[Caress of Steel]]</ref> Following this, Liam took the book and kept it with him until his death in March 1760, after which Shay claimed back the manuscript for the Templars.<ref name="Non Nobis Domine">''[[Assassin's Creed: Rogue]]'' – [[Non Nobis Domine]]</ref>
 
===Other pages===
{{Quote|The transcription reads: 'He who owns this diamond will own the world, but will also know all its misfortunes. Only God, or a woman can wear it with impunity.'|Hamid telling Arbaaz Mir of the manuscript's warning about the Koh-i-Noor, 1839.|Assassin's Creed: Brahman}}
[[File:ACBM-Arbaaz and Hamid.jpg|left|thumb|230px|Arbaaz and Hamid standing over a manuscript map]]
In June 1839, [[Hamid (Amritsar)|Hamid]], the [[Mentor]] of the [[Indian Assassins]], tasked [[Arbaaz Mir]] with the recovery of a map from the Voynich manuscript detailing information on the [[Koh-i-Noor]], during their quest to protect the artifact from falling into the [[British Rite of the Templar Order|British Templars]]' hands.<ref name="Brahman" />
 
After [[Ulysses S. Grant]]'s election as President of the [[United States]] in 1868, Grant's inner circle was infiltrated by members of the Templar Order, who subsequently corrupted his administration. They helped him master the powers of the [[Trident of Eden|prong]] the Assassins had given him during the war, by giving him access to a Precursor box and pages of the Voynich manuscript.<ref name="Locus" />
 
In 1872, after Grant's political rival, [[Horace Greeley]], stole the pages from Grant's office, the Templars poisoned him and later sent one of their agents, [[Alice (Templar)|Alice]], to finish the dying man and recover the artifact. While Alice failed to kill Greeley due to the intervention of a [[Pinkerton]] agent, [[Tommy Greyling]], she nevertheless escaped with the pages.<ref name="Locus" />
 
That same year, new pages were discovered and brought to the [[British Museum]] in [[London]], and Alice was once again sent to steal them by her superiors. She succeeded, despite being pursued by Greyling, who had allied himself with the Assassins [[Evie Frye]] and [[Jayadeep Mir|Henry Green]]. However, after being cornered on the deck of the ship bringing her back to America, she threw the pages into the [[Atlantic Ocean]] before committing suicide.<ref name="Locus" />
 
===Modern times===
{{Quote|Funny how this manuscript keeps appearing in history books only to be stolen shortly after. And for what? Flower sketches and esoteric formulas? Rumour has it even Abstergo has a major interest in the item but you didn't hear that from me.|Layla Hassan's notes on the manuscript, 2017.|Assassin's Creed: Origins|Layla Hassan's personal files}}
In 2013, [[Abstergo Industries]] warned memory research analysts at [[Abstergo Entertainment]], who were assigned to relive the memories of European subjects during the 15th and 16th centuries, to look out for the Voynich manuscript during their [[Animus]] sessions, especially for its supposed connection to the English philosopher [[Roger Bacon]].<ref name="Noob's files">''[[Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag]]'' – [[Noob's personal files]]</ref>
 
In 2017, [[Layla Hassan]] mentioned in one of her files that a fake copy of the Voynich manuscript had been sold at an auction in [[Athens]], and that it was the third replica of the book to pop up in the past decade.<ref name="ACO">''[[Assassin's Creed: Origins]]'' – [[Layla Hassan's personal files]]: "WeR/Mindblown - 2. The Voynich Manuscript"</ref>
 
In 2020, the Assassin [[Antony Henry]] mentioned the manuscript in his notes to Layla Hassan detailing his efforts translating some Isu script found in [[Canterbury]], noting that it used a cursive form of the alphabet used in the book. He added that he had tried to translate some of the manuscript's pages, but was unsuccessful and theorized that the text required a Precursor box to decode it.<ref name="ACV">''[[Assassin's Creed: Valhalla]]'' – [[Layla Hassan's personal files]]: "PRE_trslt_Canterbury.odt <v. 1 by ahenry>"</ref>
 
==Trivia==
*It is theorized that the Voynich manuscript may have been sold to Rudolf II by [[John Dee]]. Another theory suggests that the manuscript was written by [[Edward Kelley]], who could speak with members of the First Civilization through his [[Crystal Balls|Crystal Ball]].
 
==Gallery==
<gallery captionalign="center" position="center" widths="180">
AC4BF Voynich Manuscript - Folio 33v.png|Folio 33v
AC4BF Voynich Manuscript - Folio 34r.png|Folio 34r
AC4BF Voynich Manuscript - Folio 34v.png|Folio 34v
AC4BF Voynich Manuscript - Folio 35r.png|Folio 35r
ACMir Follow the Fiery Trail 10.png|Basim looking at the manuscript's contents similar to f67r1
ACBM Voynich page.jpg|The map featuring Voynich manuscript symbols and text from f70v2 and f75r
</gallery>
 
==Appearances==
*''[[Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag]]'' {{1st}}
*''[[Assassin's Creed: Brahman]]''
*''[[Assassin's Creed: Rogue]]''
*''[[Assassin's Creed: Last Descendants – Locus]]''
*''[[Assassin's Creed: Origins]]'' {{Mo}}
*''[[Assassin's Creed: Valhalla]]'' {{Mo}}
*''[[Assassin's Creed: Mirage]]'' {{c|unnamed}}
 
===Non-canonical appearances===
*''[[Assassin's Creed: The Ming Storm]]''
 
==References==
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"It was written in an exotic language I did not recognize and full of drawings. Plants and animals out of an opium dream."
―Le Chasseur describing the manuscript, 1752.[src]-[m]
Voynich manuscript

The Voynich manuscript, named for antiquarian Wilfrid Voynich, is an illustrated codex hand-written in an encrypted cursive variant[1] of the Isu language.[2]

Owners[edit | edit source]

Complete
Pages

History[edit | edit source]

Early history[edit | edit source]

"The way Zahra talks, it's more of an artifact or relic than a book. I lied about my progress so they wouldn't kill me. I can't read a single word. I don't even know if it's a language."
―Hunayn ibn Ishaq telling Basim about the manuscript, 860s.[src]-[m]

Commonly, though erroneously, believed to have been written around 1405, the artifact was created long before.[5] By the 860s, it was kept in the House of Wisdom in Baghdad. The Order of the Ancients led by Fazil Fahim al-Kemsa sought to create a device with artifacts found at a dig site southwest of the city, and wished to use knowledge from the manuscript to do so.[9]

Basim and Hunayn ibn Ishaq trying to read the manuscript

Fazil tasked his fellow Order member Zahra with stealing the manuscript, which she did after murdering the library's caretaker. Discovering the book to be written in an ancient language, Zahra kidnapped the translator Hunayn ibn Ishaq, who was one of the finest translators in the Caliphate, and forced him to attempt a translation at the Scriptorium. However, even with his skills, he was not able to read or decode the manuscript.[9]

Hunayn was later rescued by the Hidden One Basim ibn Ishaq and revealed the manuscript's content which no one had seen before. After Hunayn left to return home, Basim made the decision to leave the book behind before leaving as well.[9]

By the late 16th century, Emperor Rudolf II of the Holy Roman Empire was the last known owner of the complete manuscript, although four of the manuscript's pages eventually wound up in the hands of Governor Peter Beckford of Jamaica by the early 18th century. After they were taken from the Beckford estate, the pages were scattered across the Caribbean, until they were eventually collected by the pirate-turned-Assassin Edward Kenway between 1715 and 1722.[5]

American Colonies[edit | edit source]

"The Manuscript the Assassins sought has been in my possession for some time. I reclaimed it when my men found you marooned. The Grand Master himself charged me to discover its meaning, a task I regret I have failed to complete. I leave it in your charge, Master Cormac. There is no one else I trust more."
―George Monro entrusting the manuscript to Shay Cormac. 1757.[src]-[m]

In the following decades, the Assassins and Templars alike learned of the connection between the manuscript and the mysterious Precursor box, one of the only devices that could translate its incomprehensible text. By November 1751, both the box and several pages of the manuscript were owned by François Mackandal, the Mentor of the Saint-Domingue Assassins. Using the two artifacts in tandem, Mackandal discovered the location of an Isu temple near Port-au-Prince and sent one of his Assassins, Vendredi, to explore it and retrieve its Piece of Eden.[10]

Shay taking the manuscript from a dying James Wardrop

When Vendredi removed the Piece at the heart of the temple, he triggered a devastating earthquake and became trapped under rubble from the temple's destruction. The Templar Lawrence Washington, who had followed Vendredi, killed the trapped Assassin after interrogating him to learn the location of Mackandal's camp. He subsequently infiltrated it and stole the Precursor box and the manuscript before fleeing back to the Thirteen Colonies.[11]

In July 1752, Washington held a meeting with his fellow Templars at his Mount Vernon estate in Virginia, where he entrusted the box and the manuscript to Samuel Smith and James Wardrop, respectively. The Colonial Assassin Shay Cormac killed Washington shortly after the meeting[12] and, two years later, also assassinated Smith and Wardrop, reclaiming the two artifacts for the Brotherhood.[13][14]

In July 1754, Benjamin Franklin became the second known person to properly use the Precursor box and the manuscript in tandem, after Shay and his fellow Assassin Hope Jensen requested his help to unravel the box's secrets. Electrifying the box with lighting, Franklin was able to generate a map of the world indicating the locations of several Seismic Temples, including one in Haiti and another in Lisbon, Portugal.[15]

Shay stealing the manuscript from the Assassins

Following this, the manuscript remained in the Colonial Assassins' possession until 1756, when Shay returned to the Davenport Homestead after his mission to retrieve the Piece of Eden from the Lisbon Temple. As his tampering with the temple had caused an earthquake similar to the one in Port-au-Prince, Shay wished to prevent the Assassins from finding any more temples and endangering more innocent lives. To achieve this, he resolved to steal the manuscript from the Homestead, but during his theft he was caught by the Assassins and chased to a cliff, where he was left for dead after being shot by Louis-Joseph Gaultier.[16]

Shay was rescued by Colonel George Monro, who left him in the care of Barry and Cassidy Finnegan and took the manuscript for himself.[17] Monro was then tasked by the Colonial Templars' Grand Master, Haytham Kenway, to uncover the book's secrets, but was unable to do so. In August 1757, after Shay had proven his loyalty to the Templars, Monro gave him back the manuscript and told him about his mission from Haytham, asking for his help in deciphering the book.[18]

Shay giving the manuscript to Monro

Later that year, during an attack on Albany, Shay attempted to save Monro from the Assassin Kesegowaase and his native allies. Once he accomplished this, Shay gave Monro the manuscript, claiming that it was safer in his hands, and sent him to the Morrigan while he stayed at Fort Frederick and battled Kesegowaase. After Shay mortally wounded him, Kesegowaase revealed with his dying words that Liam O'Brien had killed Monro and taken the manuscript.[19]

In October 1759, the Assassins were making preparations for an expedition to find another Seismic Temple, after Hope Jensen had managed to replicate Benjamin Franklin's experiment with the Precursor box and used the manuscript to determine the temple's location.[20] Following this, Liam took the book and kept it with him until his death in March 1760, after which Shay claimed back the manuscript for the Templars.[21]

Other pages[edit | edit source]

"The transcription reads: 'He who owns this diamond will own the world, but will also know all its misfortunes. Only God, or a woman can wear it with impunity.'"
―Hamid telling Arbaaz Mir of the manuscript's warning about the Koh-i-Noor, 1839.[src]
Arbaaz and Hamid standing over a manuscript map

In June 1839, Hamid, the Mentor of the Indian Assassins, tasked Arbaaz Mir with the recovery of a map from the Voynich manuscript detailing information on the Koh-i-Noor, during their quest to protect the artifact from falling into the British Templars' hands.[7]

After Ulysses S. Grant's election as President of the United States in 1868, Grant's inner circle was infiltrated by members of the Templar Order, who subsequently corrupted his administration. They helped him master the powers of the prong the Assassins had given him during the war, by giving him access to a Precursor box and pages of the Voynich manuscript.[8]

In 1872, after Grant's political rival, Horace Greeley, stole the pages from Grant's office, the Templars poisoned him and later sent one of their agents, Alice, to finish the dying man and recover the artifact. While Alice failed to kill Greeley due to the intervention of a Pinkerton agent, Tommy Greyling, she nevertheless escaped with the pages.[8]

That same year, new pages were discovered and brought to the British Museum in London, and Alice was once again sent to steal them by her superiors. She succeeded, despite being pursued by Greyling, who had allied himself with the Assassins Evie Frye and Henry Green. However, after being cornered on the deck of the ship bringing her back to America, she threw the pages into the Atlantic Ocean before committing suicide.[8]

Modern times[edit | edit source]

"Funny how this manuscript keeps appearing in history books only to be stolen shortly after. And for what? Flower sketches and esoteric formulas? Rumour has it even Abstergo has a major interest in the item but you didn't hear that from me."
―Layla Hassan's notes on the manuscript, 2017.[src]-[m]

In 2013, Abstergo Industries warned memory research analysts at Abstergo Entertainment, who were assigned to relive the memories of European subjects during the 15th and 16th centuries, to look out for the Voynich manuscript during their Animus sessions, especially for its supposed connection to the English philosopher Roger Bacon.[22]

In 2017, Layla Hassan mentioned in one of her files that a fake copy of the Voynich manuscript had been sold at an auction in Athens, and that it was the third replica of the book to pop up in the past decade.[23]

In 2020, the Assassin Antony Henry mentioned the manuscript in his notes to Layla Hassan detailing his efforts translating some Isu script found in Canterbury, noting that it used a cursive form of the alphabet used in the book. He added that he had tried to translate some of the manuscript's pages, but was unsuccessful and theorized that the text required a Precursor box to decode it.[24]

Trivia[edit | edit source]

  • It is theorized that the Voynich manuscript may have been sold to Rudolf II by John Dee. Another theory suggests that the manuscript was written by Edward Kelley, who could speak with members of the First Civilization through his Crystal Ball.

Gallery[edit | edit source]

  • Folio 33v
    Folio 33v
  • Folio 34r
    Folio 34r
  • Folio 34v
    Folio 34v
  • Folio 35r
    Folio 35r
  • Basim looking at the manuscript's contents similar to f67r1
    Basim looking at the manuscript's contents similar to f67r1
  • The map featuring Voynich manuscript symbols and text from f70v2 and f75r
    The map featuring Voynich manuscript symbols and text from f70v2 and f75r

Appearances[edit | edit source]

Non-canonical appearances[edit | edit source]

References[edit | edit source]

  1. ↑ Assassin's Creed: Valhalla – Layla Hassan's personal files: PRE_trslt_Canterbury.odt <v. 1 by ahenry>
  2. ↑ 2.00 2.01 2.02 2.03 2.04 2.05 2.06 2.07 2.08 2.09 2.10 2.11 Assassin's Creed: Rogue
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Assassin's Creed: Mirage
  4. ↑ Voynich manuscript on Wikipedia
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag
  6. ↑ Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag – Database: "De Gama Diary Extract"
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 Assassin's Creed: Brahman
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 8.4 8.5 Assassin's Creed: Last Descendants – Locus
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 Assassin's Creed: Mirage – Follow the Fiery Trail
  10. ↑ Assassin's Creed: Rogue – Lessons and Revelations
  11. ↑ Assassin's Creed: Rogue – War Letters: "Family Vacation"
  12. ↑ Assassin's Creed: Rogue – By Invitation Only
  13. ↑ Assassin's Creed: Rogue – One Little Victory
  14. ↑ Assassin's Creed: Rogue – We the People
  15. ↑ Assassin's Creed: Rogue – Fiat Lux
  16. ↑ Assassin's Creed: Rogue – Freewill
  17. ↑ Assassin's Creed: Rogue – The Color of Right
  18. ↑ Assassin's Creed: Rogue – Honour and Loyalty
  19. ↑ Assassin's Creed: Rogue – Scars
  20. ↑ Assassin's Creed: Rogue – Caress of Steel
  21. ↑ Assassin's Creed: Rogue – Non Nobis Domine
  22. ↑ Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag – Noob's personal files
  23. ↑ Assassin's Creed: Origins – Layla Hassan's personal files: "WeR/Mindblown - 2. The Voynich Manuscript"
  24. ↑ Assassin's Creed: Valhalla – Layla Hassan's personal files: "PRE_trslt_Canterbury.odt <v. 1 by ahenry>"

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