# What's the deal with the Voynich Manuscript?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [June 5, 2003, 11:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-deal-with-the-voynich-manuscript/179792 "2003-06-05T11:29:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![aegypt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/76d3ee/32.png) [@aegypt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aegypt)\
**Post date:** [July 13, 2004, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-deal-with-the-voynich-manuscript/179792/21 "2004-07-13T20:45:44Z")

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This article, from the Scientific American, describes a method by which the manuscript might have been written - it is, in all likelihood, a forgery, but a very rather good one.

[http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?chanID=sa006&articleID=0000E3AA-70E1-10CF-AD1983414B7F0000&pageNumber=1&catID=2](http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?chanID=sa006&articleID=0000E3AA-70E1-10CF-AD1983414B7F0000&pageNumber=1&catID=2)

The author speculates that Kelley (Dr. Dee’s “sidekick” and a known forger) may have been the author.

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