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The friar and the cipher : Roger Bacon and the unsolved mystery of the most unsual manuscript in the world / Lawrence and Nancy Goldstone.
LIBRA - Athenaeum of Philadelphia Circulating Z105.5.V65 G65 2005
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Goldstone, Lawrence, 1947-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Voynich manuscript.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 320 pages, 8 pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Doubleday, [2005]
- Summary:
- Two acclaimed bibliophiles and historians describe in fascinating detail the theory that noted 13th-century pre-Copernican astronomer Roger Bacon was the author of The Voynich Manuscript, a mysterious tome discovered in 1912 which has puzzled scholars for almost a century.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 304-308) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0767914732
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