The Voynich Manuscript...
This mysterious illustrated manuscript has been defying all attempts to decipher it for over half a millennium...
Conceived somewhere between 1450 and 1520, the author, script, and language of the manuscript remain unknown.
Quoting from Wikipedia:
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). 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.
The book is named after the Polish-American book-dealer Wilfrid M. Voynich, who acquired it in 1912. As of 2005, the Voynich manuscript is item MS 408 in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library of Yale University. The first facsimile edition was published in 2005.
The enigmatic character of the book renders me especially happy to share it with the world.
(Note: the PDF was taken from the Wikipedia page cited above.)
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