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Gordon Rugg
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Gordon Rugg, a University of Keele researcher, demonstrated in 2004 that the manuscript's text could be generated using a simple encoding table and Cardan grille—tools available in the Renaissance—suggesting it may be an elaborate hoax created to defraud Rudolf II, who paid enormous sums for rare manuscripts.
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The Voynich Manuscript
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Emperor Rudolf II of Habsburg
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Yale University Beinecke Library
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