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The Voynich manuscript : the unsolved riddle of an extraordinary book which has defied interpretation for centuries / Gerry Kennedy and Rob Churchill.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: London : Orion, 2004.Description: 276 pages, [24] pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 22cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 075285996X
Subject(s): Subject: Discovered in an Italian monastery by antiquarian book dealer Wilfrid Voynich (a distant relative of one of the authors), the Voynich Manuscript has intrigued and baffled experts for years. Written in a curious script that may conceal an unknown language or indecipherable code, it contains hundreds of illustrations of weird plants, bizarre cosmological diagrams, and, most tantalising of all, inexplicable scenes of ‘naked nymphs’ bathing in a strange, green liquid. This book not only tells the history of the manuscript, a tale that leads from medieval Europe to modern-day America, but also the fascinating story of the attempts to crack the seemingly impenetrable cipher.
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Item type Current library Collection Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Non-Fiction Davis (Central) Library Non-Fiction Non-Fiction 091 KEN 1 Available T00415406
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

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 book--which now resides at Yale University--it 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.

Includes index and bibliographical references.

Discovered in an Italian monastery by antiquarian book dealer Wilfrid Voynich (a distant relative of one of the authors), the Voynich Manuscript has intrigued and baffled experts for years. Written in a curious script that may conceal an unknown language or indecipherable code, it contains hundreds of illustrations of weird plants, bizarre cosmological diagrams, and, most tantalising of all, inexplicable scenes of ‘naked nymphs’ bathing in a strange, green liquid. This book not only tells the history of the manuscript, a tale that leads from medieval Europe to modern-day America, but also the fascinating story of the attempts to crack the seemingly impenetrable cipher.

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