The Friar and the Cipher
Subtitle: Roger Bacon and the Unsolved Mystery of the Most Unusual Manuscript in the World
Publisher: Doubleday
Published: February 15, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780767914734
Subjects: Language Arts & Disciplines; Manuscripts; History Of Science; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Language; Library & Information Science; Books & Reading; History; Science / General; Bacon, Roger,; Voynich manuscript; Europe - General; 1214?-1294
First sentence: ROGER BACON WAS BORN IN SOMERSET, in southwest England, about one hundred miles west of London.
Description: This study of the mystery of the Voynich manuscript, discovered in 1912, examines the theory that thirteenth-century astronomer Roger Bacon was the author of the book, which is written in an indecipherable language and code that remains unsolved.