Codex Seraphinianus
In 1978, this book arrived in a mysterious package at a publishing house in Milano, Italy. The book is written in a weird alphabet not seen anywhere else. It is said that if you can read this book, you'll possess keys to parallel Universes. The problem is that the language of the codex has defied complete analysis by linguists for decades. The name "Seraphinianus" is the acronym for "Strange and Extraordinary Representations of Animals and Plants and Hellish Incarnations of Normal Items from the Annals of Naturalist/Unnaturalist Luigi Serafini".
Ancient Manuscripts
First created in such places as Ireland, Constantinople, and Italy by amazingly diligent monks, illuminated manuscripts reached their height in the Middle Ages. They were very difficult to create and very expensive, so they were primarily created as “altar Bibles” for churches or cathedrals or for very wealthy patrons.
They can be tough to read as well due to the fact that they were copied and translated so often and the text was also neglected in favour of the artwork. Many illuminated Bibles contain simple typographical mistakes.
The Voynich Manuscript
You can look this up in Wikipedia. This book pays homage to another "untranslatable artifact" - The Voynich Manuscript. Unknown script, unknown author, bizarre illustrations with mainly biological and cosmological themes, acquired first by an obscure alchemist in Prague in the 17th century:
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