figures, possibly at a later date. The ink
of the drawings, text and page and
quire numbers had similar microscopic
characteristics.
Every page in the manuscript contains
text, mostly in an unidentified
language, but some have extraneous
writing in Latin script. The bulk of the
text in the 240-page manuscript is
written in an unknown script, running
left to right. Most of the characters are
composed of one or two simple pen
strokes. Some dispute exists as to
whether certain characters are distinct,
but a script of 20–25 characters would
account for virtually all of the text; the
exceptions are a few dozen rarer
characters that occur only once or
twice each. There is no obvious
punctuation.
Some of the pages are missing, with
around 240 remaining. The text is
written from left to right, and most of
the pages have illustrations or
diagrams. Some pages are foldable
sheets.
Many YouTube Videos and Internet
articles claims to decode the most
mysterious book. But no one has
authentic statement.
It is kept inside Yale University's
Beinecke Rare Book and manuscript
library lies the only copy of a 24 0 pages
tome. The text consists of over
170,000 characters, with spaces
dividing the text into about 35,000
groups of varying length, usually
referred to as "words" or "word tokens"
(37,919); 8,114 of those words are
considered unique "word types".The
structure of these words seems to
follow phonological or orthographic
laws of some sort; for example, certain
characters must appear in each word
(like English vowels), some characters
never follow others, or some may be
doubled or tripled, but others may not.