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Scientific American

July 1, 2004

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The Mystery of the Voynich Manuscript

New analysis of a famously cryptic medieval document suggests that it contains nothing but gibberish

By Gordon Rugg

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The Voynich Manuscript: An Elegant Enigma. Mary E. D'Imperio. Aegean Park Press, 1978.

The Queen's Conjuror: The Science and Magic of Dr Dee. Benjamin Woolley. Flamingo/HarperCollins, 2002.

The Voynich Manuscript: An Elegant Hoax? Gordon Rugg in Cryptologia, Vol. 28, No. 1; January 2004.

More information about the Voynich manuscript can be found on the Web at www.keele.ac.uk/depts/cs/staff/g.rugg/voynich/; www.voynich.nu/; www.dcc.unicamp.br/~stolfi/voynich/; and mysite.freeserve.com/philipneal¿vms

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