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Voynich Manuscript.|Cipher Manuscript.
In 1912, the antiquarian book dealer Wilfrid M. Voynich bought a number of
mediaeval manuscripts from an undisclosed location in Europe.
Among these was an illustrated manuscript codex of 234 pages,
written in an unknown script.
Voynich took the MS to the United States and started a campaign to have it
deciphered.
Now, almost 100 years later, the Voynich manuscript still stands as
probably the most elusive puzzle in the world of cryptography.
Not a single word of this 'Most Mysterious Manuscript',
written probably in the second half of the 15th Century, can be understood.
Scientific or magical text in an unidentified language, in cipher, apparently
based on Roman minuscule characters; the text is believed by some scholars
to be the work of Roger Bacon since the themes of the illustrations
seem to represent topics known to have interested Bacon (see also Provenance
below.)
High Res Image: 1006083 |
clipped from: beinecke.library.yale.edu 
