HARDLY a week passes without an earnest editor’s appealing through the London Times Literary Supplement for news of the whereabouts of some lost but essential piece of script. And even the more ...
Lisa Fagin Davis was starting her medieval-studies Ph.D. at Yale in 1989 when she got a part-time job at the university’s Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library. Her boss was the curator of early ...
The 15th century Voynich Manuscript (also known as the Cipher Manuscript) is considered the most mysterious text in the world, and we seem no closer to decoding it that when it was first purchased by ...
Keagan Brewer receives funding from a Macquarie University Research Fellowship. The Voynich manuscript has long puzzled and fascinated historians and the public. This late-medieval document is covered ...