No, not clickbait, but not guaranteed either, I suspect.
Boing Boing today had this headline
The Voynich Manuscript appears to be a fairly routine anthology of ancient women's health advice at this link:
https://boingboing.net/2017/09/09/fizzle.html#more-545113
The Boing Boing article leads in to some material from another source as follows:
Nicholas Gibbs, a history researcher, says that he has decoded the Voynich Manuscript, a legendarily mysterious 15th century text whose curious illustrations and script have baffled cryptographers, historians, and amateur sleuths for decades.
According to Gibbs, the Voynich Manuscript is a cobbled together compendium of largely plagiarized women's medical advice and treatments, and the odd script is just an idiosyncratic version of a widely used system of Latin abbreviations.
This is followed by what appears to be a blockquote from this article: https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/public/voynich-manuscript-solution/
The whole Boing Boing article is a somewehat short and quick read that provides enough information on the contents of the tls article to both titillate and perhaps satisfy one's curiosity regarding this fabled 15th century mystery. The full tls article linked therein looks like it will be a somewhat substantial read, and I have not yet dived in. One cannot help but wonder if the fact that this was such an uncrackable mystery for so long may have been in part due to the fact that it concerned women's affairs, but that would be idle speculation. The relatively recent digitization, with the resultant increased exposure of the full text to a much wider audience was likely an important factor in its solution.
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