25-03-2019, 05:52 PM
Sorry if my comment could have seemed disrespectful. Far from my intention. I'm sure Lisa Fagin Davis is a competent and brilliant paleografher and medievalist. I wrote that because I read that she says she is interested in the VMS as an object not in solving it.
But for me, and I think for all of you, the VMS is something unique and valuable more for its spirit than for its material. Generations of people have wanted to know the message that hides and the members of this forum feel the same intellectual restlessness.
If I were to seek advice about medieval manuscripts in general, I would ask Lisa Fagin Davis. But if what I want is to deepen in the VMS, I would pay attention to someone who feels passion for it, someone like ReneZ for example.
I am a librarian of the National Library of Spain and I'm used to seeing medieval manuscripts. My impression is that what would explain the VMS are books that have not reached us. Too many Inquisitions and books at the stake.
But for me, and I think for all of you, the VMS is something unique and valuable more for its spirit than for its material. Generations of people have wanted to know the message that hides and the members of this forum feel the same intellectual restlessness.
If I were to seek advice about medieval manuscripts in general, I would ask Lisa Fagin Davis. But if what I want is to deepen in the VMS, I would pay attention to someone who feels passion for it, someone like ReneZ for example.
I am a librarian of the National Library of Spain and I'm used to seeing medieval manuscripts. My impression is that what would explain the VMS are books that have not reached us. Too many Inquisitions and books at the stake.