The Friar And the Cipher

The Friar And the Cipher

Roger Bacon And the Unsolved Mystery of the Most Unusual Manuscript in the World

by Lawrence Goldstone, Nancy Bazelon Goldstone

320 pages· 2006· ISBN 9780767914727
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An accessible study of the baffling mystery of the Voynich Manuscript, discovered in 1912, examines the theory that Roger Bacon, the noted thirteenth-century astronomer, was the author of the book, which is written in an indecipherable language and code that remains unsolved and contains odd illustrations of plants, astrological diagrams, and more. Reprint. 12,500 first printing.

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