The Friar and the Cipher: Roger Bacon and the Unsolved Mystery of the Most Unusual Manuscript in the World by Nancy Goldstone, Lawrence Goldstone

The Friar and the Cipher: Roger Bacon and the Unsolved Mystery of the Most Unusual Manuscript in the World

Nancy Goldstone, Lawrence Goldstone

320 pages • first pub 2005 (editions)

nonfiction history science challenging informative mysterious slow-paced
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The Voynich Manuscript, a mysterious tome discovered in 1912 by the English book dealer Wilfrid Michael Voynich, has puzzled scholars for a century. A small six inches by nine inches, but over two hundred pages long, with odd illustrations of plan...

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