29-04-2021, 12:34 PM
(29-04-2021, 08:24 AM)Helmut Winkler wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.@ Geoffrey
The Britannica artile is slightly misleadingm, the Count Palatine is always the 'Pfalzgraf bei Rhein', one of the prince electors, who rules the Lower P., Untere Pfalz and part of the (later so called) Upper P., Oberpfalz, he is not one of the dukes of Bavaria, both are Wittelsbach, of ourse
Thank you very much for this most informative feedback, Helmut!
This means we can definitely place Edward, 2nd Duke of York, as an ambassador of Richard II at Heidelberg in the late 1390s. I like the timing: If he learned such scripts and began to invent his own one then, it would have given him several years to practice and perfect it, so that by 1404 at the time he began composition of the Voynich manuscript, he had mastered the writing of his script.
Clearly this also means Edward must have had a certain proficiency in German as well, which would explain the German marginalia in the Voynich manuscript (in the same way that I, for example, could very well have written Russian marginalia in my notebooks after studying the language and spending six months there on a student exchange program).
Geoffrey