The Friar and the Cipher

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

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Lawrence GoldstoneNancy Goldstone2 editions

This study of the mystery of the Voynich manuscript, discovered in 1912, examines the theory that thirteenth-century astronomer Roger Bacon was the author of the book, which is written in an indecipherable language and code that remains unsolved.

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