(08-05-2016, 04:22 AM)Diane wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.- so is it something that has been previously noted before, and if so by whom? Is David's observation the first?
But how can we ever know this? Hundreds of people have seen the MS. Anyone with basic book knowledge would draw the same conclusion. For me, this is a trivial observation, not worthy of a citation, and the process can be found in any book about parchment preparation. At my web site I refer to this page:
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(and ff.) which I find very clear.
For the rest, everything related to the history of the MS after it was received by Kircher, until Voynich presented it to the world, is my own research which is documented at my web site,
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A short summary of it is presently being printed, and I can't give a citation of that yet.
The historical archives of the Gregorian University in Rome asked me to write a blog entry about it, which is also just a short summary and can be found here:
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