Thursday, February 29, 2024

Shaken but not stirred



JMG has an idea about the Voynich Manuscript: 

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Strda221, it’s a hoax. A couple of years ago, while doing research on the career of Sidney Reilly (real name Zygmund Rosenblum), one of the great international spies of the early 20th century, I ran across a reference to the Voynich manuscript in relation to a ring of document forgers who manufactured fake historic documents as well as more mundane items such as fake passports. 

Having carefully examined a facsimile of the manuscript, I’ve come to think of it as one of the masterpieces of the forger’s trade, the Mona Lisa of fake manuscripts.

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