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The following list, based on a previous version of the Wikipedia Voynich Manuscript page [1] is a list of novels and other material which make use of the Manuscript. Like other such lists it is unlikely to ever be complete, and there are likely to be more brief mentions.

The list can be added to and/or brief descriptions supplied - there should be more than mere passing mentions:

  • Russell Blake 'The Voynich Cypher'
  • Michael Cordy 'The Source' (2008)
  • Baz Cunningham 'The Voynich Enigma'
  • Daniel Guebel 'El Caso Voynich'
  • Lev Grossman (Wikipedia article 'Codex') 2004
  • Deborah Harkness The Book of Life (2014)
  • Enrique Joven 'The Book of God and Physics: A Novel of the Voynich Mystery'
  • Brad Kelln 'In Tongues of the Dead' (2008)
  • Leena Krohn 'Datura, or a delusion we all see' (Datura tai harha jonka jokainen, Finnish version, 2001)
  • Jonathan Maberry Assassin's Code (2012)
  • Linda Sue Park The 39 Clues: Trust No One (2012)
  • Jeremy Robinson with Sean Ellis 'Prime'(2013)
  • James K. Rollins 'The Voynich Project: Nephilim Rising'
  • Alex Scarrow 'Time Riders: The Doomsday Code'
  • Dominic Selwood 'The Sword of Moses' (2013)
  • Scarlett Thomas (Wikipedia page [2] 'PopCo') 2004
  • Robin Wasserman The 'Book of Blood and Shadow'
  • Colin Wilson 'The Return of the Lloigor' (1974)
  • Ivan Paganacci "Dungeon" (2016)

Contemporary classical composer Hanspeter Kyburz's 1995 chamber work The Voynich Cipher Manuscript, for chorus & ensemble is inspired by the manuscript.

In 2015, the New Haven Symphony Orchestra commissioned Hannah Lash to compose a symphony inspired by the manuscript.

The manuscript has also appeared in the video games Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag published by Ubisoft and Broken Sword: The Sleeping Dragon published by THQ.


It featured in Season 1, Episode 3 of the TV show Weird or What? and Season 2, Episode 2 of the National Geographic Channel's TV show Ancient X-Files.

It is also referenced in Japanese visual novel Saya no Uta (Wikipedia article [3]).

The Cipher Mysteries page is [4].


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