In 1912, a Polish-American book dealer named Wilfrid M. Voynich went to Rome on an acquisitions trip. There he happened upon a trunk that contained a rare manuscript now known as the Voynich manuscript. Since its appearance, this document—which is now under lock and key at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript library at Yale—has been studied extensively and has stumped even the most successful cryptographers and code breakers. You must be asking yourself why the intrigue? The answer is simple: the book is almost entirely illegible.
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In 1912, a Polish-American book dealer named Wilfrid M. Voynich went to Rome on an acquisitions trip.
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#i love the voynich manuscript i think about it at least once a week#i think it was a hoax created by someone in the 15th century but probably not one of the famous fraudsters that have been proposed#its so fucking funny to think about the thought process of someone doinf this so long ago and how they would flip out if they knew people#were still trying to figure it out 600 years later
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