Excerpt: 'The Book of Lost Books' Read from The Book of Lost Books by Stuart Kelly. Excerpt: 'The Book of Lost Books' June 10, 2006 5:05 PM ET. By . ... Death is inevitable and incomprehensible.

Fragments of an almost 1,000-year-old lost manuscript have been uncovered, and it may have belonged to a princess who fled England after the country was conquered by the Normans in the 11th century.

A manuscript written in incomprehensible text and dating back to the middle ages has spawned countless theories. But will we ever know where it comes from, who wrote it or what it means?