Among the most enigmatic documents to survive from the medieval period is the Voynich manuscript, an illustrated codex written entirely in an unknown script that has resisted every serious attempt at decipherment for over a century. Named after the antique book dealer who acquired it in 1912, the manuscript contains detailed illustrations of unidentifiable plants, astronomical diagrams, and what appear to be bathing figures, alongside pages of continuous, flowing text written in a writing system found nowhere else in the historical record. Radiocarbon dating conducted on the manuscript's vellum pages has placed its creation firmly in the early 15th century, ruling out theories that it was an elaborate forgery created in more recent centuries. Numerous codebreakers, linguists, and amateur enthusiasts have attempted to decode the manuscript's text, proposing theories ranging from an unrecorded natural language to an elaborate constructed language or even a sophisticated hoax designed purely to appear meaningful without actually containing any decipherable content. Statistical analysis of the text has revealed patterns consistent with genuine language, including word-frequency distributions similar to those found in known languages, which has led many researchers to doubt that the manuscript is simply meaningless gibberish. Despite these tantalising clues, no proposed decipherment has gained widespread scholarly acceptance, and the manuscript's true meaning, and indeed its original purpose, remains as mysterious today as when it first attracted serious scholarly attention.