A fascinating exhibition will open at the Folger Shakespeare Library this November. Its focus will be 600 years worth of secret communication, from Shakespeare to Snowden. On view for the first time at the Folger Shakespeare Library will be the Voynich Manuscript, the mysterious text of botanical drawings, astronomical drawings and biological drawings dating back to the 15th or 16th century.
A discussion about the Voynich Manuscript will be held on November 11, 2014 at 7:30 PM. This panel discussion will be lead by Folger curator, Bill Sherman, who is also the Head of Research at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London and a Professor of Renaissance Studies at the University of York. Joining Professor Sherman is René Zandbergen, Voynich researcher and one of the developers of the European Voynich Alphabet and curator of www.voynich.nu.
Tickets are $15 non-members, $10 members.
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Decoding the Renaissance
Folger Shakespeare Library
Folger Great Hall
Washington, DC
November 11, 2014 – March 1, 2015
ArtPlantae Today 
The Voynich manuscript has to do nothing with secret communication.
This manuscript was written to safe secret knowledge and it was
only developed for this.
In its way, it is unique and not comparable with classic cryptological methods.
It is incredible that you want to have a discussion about the Voynich Manuscript
here on the basis of the European Voynich Alphabet. EVA is one of this methods.
This approach of decryption is totally wrong and therefore it will never decipher
the manuscript.
For more information, please visit
http://voynich-manuskript.de/ms408/index.php?id=homeen
http://stephenbax.net/?p=194
Jutta,
Thank you for the link to another website about the Voynich Manuscript and for pointing out that the European Voynich Alphabet is only one approach to interpreting the manuscript. Clearly there are many opinions about this text.