
The codex is associated with the historical library at Rohonc, now Rechnitz, and entered the Hungarian Academy of Sciences collections in the nineteenth century. Its pages combine densely written symbols with illustrations, many apparently religious. Claims about the language, date, or decipherment should be treated cautiously: there is no broadly accepted reading.
A point of interest
What illustrated evidence can—and cannot—tell us when the accompanying script is unfamiliar.
