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December 30, 2003
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Sometime in the late 1400s a document was written and sold repeatedly from one collector to aother over the next few hundred years.
The appeal of the book is that it is written in a language found nowhere else on Earth, and all 200 or so pages are thus believed to be entirely in code.
The codex also contains many illustrations of fantastic plants and people engaged in strange activities.
The question then is whether the book was a hoax or prank where the text is mererly gibberish, or the book conceals encrypted information and is just waiting to be cracked.
There are lots of examples of written hoaxes, such as the Salamander Papers and Beale Papers, but those stories don't involve Edward Kelley or Francis Bacon.
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Posted by mslaybau at December 30, 2003 03:05 AM
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