They realised the text was potentially important, but wrongly concluded that it was a transliteration of the Egyptian Book of the Dead in the Arabic script.
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He did not undertake any further research on the text, until 1877, when a chance conversation with Richard Burton about runes made him realise that the writing was not Egyptian.
Liber Pontificalis | Liber Septimus | Liber | Liber Exoniensis | Liber Abaci | Title page of the book ''Emblematum liber'' by Andrea Alciato | Phellinus linteus | Mikhail Liber | Liber Gomorrhianus | Liber feudorum maior | Liber feudorum Ceritaniae | Liber de Causis | ''Liber chronicarum'' - more commonly known as the Nuremberg Chronicle | Artist's representation of distillation apparatus for aqua vitae, from ''Liber de arte Distillandi'', by Hieronymus Brunschwig |