The Voynich Manuscript; The Unsolved Riddle of an Extraordinary Book Which has Defied Interpretation for Centuries

by Unknown

• ISBN13: 9780752864228
• ISBN10: 075286422X
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 2004-07-01
• Publisher: Orion Pub Co

Summary

In 1912, Wilfrid Voynich, an antiquarian book dealer, stumbled upon a strange volume, its vellum pages covered in a beautiful but unrecognisable script accompanied by equally mystifying pictures. The codex has remained undeciphered from that day to this. Voynich believed the codex to be the work of medieval philosopher Roger Bacon, others that of the Elizabethan mathematician and occultist John Dee. Whoever created the bookwhich now resides at Yale Universityit remains to this day a singular enigma which continues to defy the best efforts of linguists, cryptologists, and scholars. With the benefit of the authors' exhaustive research, readers can hazard their own guesses as to the meaning and provenance of this most beguiling of mysteries.

Table of Contents

The ugly duckling	p. 5
The cipher of Roger Bacon	p. 19
The magus, the scryer and the Egyptologist	p. 55
The cryptological maze - Part I	p. 87
The cryptological maze - Part II	p. 127
A garden of unearthly delights	p. 159
Privileged consciousness	p. 197
Shams old and new	p. 225
Letting the cat out of the bag	p. 247
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