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In what date range does 2009 radiocarbon dating place the Voynich Manuscript vellum?
AMS radiocarbon dating at the University of Arizona produced 1404-1438 with 95 percent confidence, eliminating both the Roger Bacon (too early) and Edward Kelley forgery (too late) theories.
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The Early 15th-Century Manuscript Written in a Script That No One Has Read in Six Hundred Years The Voynich Manuscript is a 240-page illuminated codex written in an unknown script and an unknown language, with botanical, astronomical, balneological, and pharmaceutical illustrations. Radiocarbon dating of the vellum places production between 1404 and 1438. No one has produced a generally accepted translation in the six centuries since.
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