27-06-2016, 02:23 AM
(This post was last modified: 27-06-2016, 03:05 AM by Diane.
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Koen,
Nice looking volume. Let's hope the introduction and essays adds something to our knowledge - perhaps about the codicology and palaeography.
The blurb suggests that the "history" is the same old, same old.. but there is a promise of essays.
Unfortunate that they don't include a list of those essays and their authors. After all, that's the only part of the volume likely to attract scholars.
I do hope they haven't just re-hashed the old "Rudolf-owned-it-" stuff. To still say that the plants are 'otherworldly' is rather depressing reading.
I rather think that the publisher for my own book-in-progress is likely to find a fair number of my original discoveries in a 're-hash without attribution' version in the way so very, very common in Voynich studies since .. whenever.. that he'll have another apoplectic fit.
I've asked Yale to send me a copy of the Table of Contents in advance. More news as it comes to hand.
But I'm guessing that the "history" will be dressed up theory, poorly researched, poorly proven, and basically little more than flummery of the "Rudolf owned it and its about baths and tubes" sort. Depressing thought.
Nice looking volume. Let's hope the introduction and essays adds something to our knowledge - perhaps about the codicology and palaeography.
The blurb suggests that the "history" is the same old, same old.. but there is a promise of essays.
Unfortunate that they don't include a list of those essays and their authors. After all, that's the only part of the volume likely to attract scholars.
I do hope they haven't just re-hashed the old "Rudolf-owned-it-" stuff. To still say that the plants are 'otherworldly' is rather depressing reading.
I rather think that the publisher for my own book-in-progress is likely to find a fair number of my original discoveries in a 're-hash without attribution' version in the way so very, very common in Voynich studies since .. whenever.. that he'll have another apoplectic fit.
I've asked Yale to send me a copy of the Table of Contents in advance. More news as it comes to hand.
But I'm guessing that the "history" will be dressed up theory, poorly researched, poorly proven, and basically little more than flummery of the "Rudolf owned it and its about baths and tubes" sort. Depressing thought.