By Express News Service |Updated: May 16, 2019 9:33:44 am
Voynich Manuscript: An illustrated codex written in an extinct language, purchased in 1912, deciphered in 2019
The Voynich Manuscript, as it came to be known, was dated to the 15th century (1404-38), is written on vellum (240 pages intact, others missing) with text and illustrations, and has been with Yale University’s Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library since 1969.
In 1912, Wilfrid Voynich, a Polish-Samogitian book dealer. purchased a manuscript whose contents would go on to mystify cryptographers, linguistics scholars and computer programmes for more than a century.
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