The Book of Soyga

Dee was reportedly told by the angel Uriel that only the archangel Michael could read its tables. In 1998 a cryptographer found they were generated by a simple recursive rule — a human puzzle solved four centuries after a spirit allegedly declared it unsolvable.

Deborah Harkness's 1994 identification of the manuscript (Bodley MS 908, Sloane MS 8); Jim Reeds's 1998 decoding of the letter tables

A Latin magical treatise John Dee owned and consulted his angel about, lost after his death and rediscovered in 1994.

Sources and verificationThe reading is attributed above

No formal citations for this entry yet. The reading above carries its own attribution.