Baresch

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While Koen discovered a reference to Baresch's master thesis, my raw search yielded one reference to an alchemical  book co-authored by one Baresch: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. , don't know if it'ss new to the Voynich research.

Among other things, this reference reveals an alternative form of the man's surname: "Barcius".

As far as I understand, the author has doubts whether the author of the cited book is Georg Baresch (as we now know thx to Koen there was another Bartschius called Michael).

The author doubts indeed that this Barcius is 'our' Barschius.

Two paragraphs below that, there is reference to a MS of Jakub Dobrzensky de Nigro Ponte.
He was one of the foremost pupils of Marci, and published at least one work of Marci posthumously.
Inevitably, he must have known about the Voynich MS.
The MS he wrote is mentioned to be preserved in the Strahov monastery.
I was there a couple of times. I asked to see it and I was told that it was lost....