27-04-2016, 04:16 PM
To me the whole Rudolph thing has unreliable narrator and questionable source written all over it. But anything goes in specilation.
What we shouldn't forget is that the manuscript's original owners or creators were probably dead more than a century before the thing turned up in Prague.
Somewhere along the line, it must have changed from purposeful creation to a sphinx that nobody knew anything about. Not even Kircher, and that guy was like a cross between Champolion, a biblical scholar and Nick Pelling, all in one person.
My personal speculation is that it was created somehere in Northern Italy, but I would stress proximity to the Mediterranean more than to other states. Somehow the original owner or his descendants lost it, got it stolen, died... and from that point on, nobody recognised what it was anymore.
What we shouldn't forget is that the manuscript's original owners or creators were probably dead more than a century before the thing turned up in Prague.
Somewhere along the line, it must have changed from purposeful creation to a sphinx that nobody knew anything about. Not even Kircher, and that guy was like a cross between Champolion, a biblical scholar and Nick Pelling, all in one person.
My personal speculation is that it was created somehere in Northern Italy, but I would stress proximity to the Mediterranean more than to other states. Somehow the original owner or his descendants lost it, got it stolen, died... and from that point on, nobody recognised what it was anymore.