The book is named after the Polish-American book-dealer Wilfrid M. This string of failures has turned the Voynich manuscript into a famous subject of historical cryptology, but it has also given weight to the theory that the book is simply an elaborate hoax - a meaningless sequence of arbitrary symbols" (Wikipedia article on the Voynich Manuscript). "Over its recorded existence, the Voynich manuscript has been the object of intense study by many professional and amateur cryptographers, including some top American and British codebreakers of World War II fame (all of whom failed to decrypt a single word). However, its author, script and language remain unknown, and for centuries it was believed that the manuscript might have been intentionally meaningless. The Voynich manuscript, a mysterious illustrated manuscript book written in what long appeared to be an indecipherable text, has been the subject of much research and speculation for centuries.
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