{
  "id": 16103825,
  "title": "This Mysterious Medieval Manuscript Has Stumped Scholars for Well Over a Century. Could Its Pages Have Been Bound Out of Order This Whole Time?",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/22/this-mysterious-medieval-manuscript-has-stumped-scholars-for-well",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-10-22T20:21:27.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Smithsonian",
    "slug": "smithsonian",
    "url": "https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/this-mysterious-medieval-manuscript-has-stumped-scholars-for-well-over-a-century-could-its-pages-have-been-bound-out-of-order-this-whole-time-180989737/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "A new study claims that the pages of the Voynich Manuscript, thought to be written by several different scribes in 16th-century Europe, alternate irregularly. It may change the way codebreakers approach the text",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}