17-03-2023, 07:09 PM
One issue with some of the Visconti material is that it was destroyed in the 1447 fire.
As I have pointed out before there is a quantity of Italian material from around the Voynich period in the French National Library.
I do agree that not much can be achieved in a few hours in an archive and certainly getting an inventory, if they have an inventory for certain folders and if the inventory is not online could be a useful exercise. The Vatican have inventories which can only be seen if you visit their archives. However I should say that with my experience of a number of Italian archives such as the Florence State Archives, Milan State Archives and others they often seem to lack inventories for specific folders though they might have some general record of the kind of thing to be found in that folder, so it is necessary to search through a folder that one believes might contain something useful
As I have pointed out before there is a quantity of Italian material from around the Voynich period in the French National Library.
I do agree that not much can be achieved in a few hours in an archive and certainly getting an inventory, if they have an inventory for certain folders and if the inventory is not online could be a useful exercise. The Vatican have inventories which can only be seen if you visit their archives. However I should say that with my experience of a number of Italian archives such as the Florence State Archives, Milan State Archives and others they often seem to lack inventories for specific folders though they might have some general record of the kind of thing to be found in that folder, so it is necessary to search through a folder that one believes might contain something useful