The Friar and the Cipher

Roger Bacon and the Unsolved Mystery of the Most Unusual Manuscript in the World

Hardcover, 336 pages

English language

Published Feb. 15, 2005 by Doubleday.

ISBN:
978-0-7679-1473-4
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There are reviews which complain that this book is not quite what it advertises itself to be. Nominally about its cryptographic manuscript, it spends at least 80% of its time in an extended history lesson of Roger, & then Francis, Bacon. Now since my knowledge of these men was not the best, for myself, I could forgive this. However, if you're looking for greater details on the manuscript you'll probably be disappointed. Having said that, the ultimate conclusion is that we still don't know much about the manuscript.

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