Author of mysterious Voynich manuscript was Italian Jew, says scholar

Illustrations of the book that has confounded code-breakers and scholars for more than 100 years may offer key clues about authorship

One of the world’s most confounding literary mysteries may finally be, in part, solved: the author of the mysterious and as-yet untranslatable Voynich manuscript has been identified as a Jewish physician based in northern Italy, an expert in medieval manuscripts has claimed.

The Voynich manuscript is an illustrated book printed on vellum written entirely in an indecipherable script, leaving scholars and code-breakers scratching their heads since it re-emerged a century ago.

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