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Washington, D.C. - January 28, 2015: The Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington D.C. is exhibiting a historical collection of cryptology, "Decoding the Renaissance: 500 Years of Codes and Ciphers."
The exhibit's center-piece is the mysterious Voynich manuscript, a 14th century book written in an unknown language, yet to be translated. The manuscript was long considered to be a cipher, but American codebreaker, William Friedman debunked the notion that the book is code, concluding it is written in an unknown language. Friedman, who broke Japan's Purple code in WWII, and his wife Elizabeth also dismissed Baconist conspiracy theories that Shakespeare's plays were peppered with ciphered clues that Sir Francis Bacon actually wrote the plays.


CREDIT: Matt Roth for The New York Times
Assignment ID: 30170041A

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Washington, D.C. - January 28, 2015: The Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington D.C. is exhibiting a historical collection of cryptology, "Decoding the Renaissance: 500 Years of Codes and Ciphers."<br /> The exhibit's center-piece is the mysterious Voynich manuscript, a 14th century book written in an unknown language, yet to be translated. The manuscript was long considered to be a cipher, but American codebreaker, William Friedman debunked the notion that the book is code, concluding it is written in an unknown language. Friedman, who broke Japan's Purple code in WWII, and his wife Elizabeth also dismissed Baconist conspiracy theories that Shakespeare's plays were peppered with ciphered clues that Sir Francis Bacon actually wrote the plays. <br /> <br /> <br /> CREDIT: Matt Roth for The New York Times<br /> Assignment ID: 30170041A
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