The Voynich Manuscript

Language unknown, author unknown, written c. 1500 A.D.

Named for its book dealer-discoverer, the manuscript is written in a cipher that continues to defy translation. The contents of the 116-page work are a complete mystery, as is the identity of the author (although many scholars think the book is the work of Francis Bacon). Cryptic illustrations of strange creatures and diagrams of tubes and cylinders only heighten the mystery. The original was donated to Yale University after its discovery in 1925, and laboriously copied into a facsimile edition. Dr. Armitage acquired a copy of the limited run facsimile edition. (Johnson, Sam, and Sandy Antunes. "Miskatonic University: A Handbook to the Pride of Arkham." Chaosium, Oct. 2005.)