07-08-2023, 11:59 AM
From, quick reading and for what I understand from it, the study says that it is quite sure that the manuscripts Voynich acquired were in fact stored at Villa Torlonia in Castel Gandolfo. It seems to be also quite sure, that it was father Joseph Strickland who transferred those manuscripts (listed in the APUG 3289) to Villa Mondragone in Frascati.
This could confirm Ethel's description that Wilfried acquired those manuscripts in castle at Frascati.
The manuscripts Voynich acquired were listed in two different catalogs APUG 3289 and APUG 3225, and those catalogs are almost identical.
Reason for this double catalog is not known, but it could be that they were made for two different reasons: one for keeping track of manuscripts that could be potentially sold as for their age, and other to keep track of manuscripts for Jesuits interest.
The APUG3289 contains manuscripts and other material orignating from library of Collegio Romano, of which most of them are now placed in the Vatican Archives.
It seems that the APUG 3289 has been compiled by.. the belgian jesuite Pierre-Jan Beckx. Beckx, to avoid confiscation of the library and suppression of the religious orders of Rome, stamped those manuscripts with he's ex-libris "Ex Bibliotheca privata P. Petri Beckx", to obfuscate them to be he's own private books. These books were later transferred to Castel Gandolfo, Villa Torlonia.
From 1912 some of those were transferred to Vatican Library, but a small part of these, were transferred to Villa Mondragone from where Voynich acquired some of them.
Last thing is about the dating. The APUG3289 has a title "Catalog of codex and prints acquired by the Library of Vatican on 1903", but the catalog is connected to two distinct transactions on 1911/1912 (Voynich) and 1912 (Vatican Library). The year 1903 might not be casual, as in that period the senate of the Italy approved the law of conservation of historical objects, allowing the state to have pre-emption in any historical book and manuscript sold. But it is still unclear why 1903 as the law was already in place.
This could confirm Ethel's description that Wilfried acquired those manuscripts in castle at Frascati.
The manuscripts Voynich acquired were listed in two different catalogs APUG 3289 and APUG 3225, and those catalogs are almost identical.
Reason for this double catalog is not known, but it could be that they were made for two different reasons: one for keeping track of manuscripts that could be potentially sold as for their age, and other to keep track of manuscripts for Jesuits interest.
The APUG3289 contains manuscripts and other material orignating from library of Collegio Romano, of which most of them are now placed in the Vatican Archives.
It seems that the APUG 3289 has been compiled by.. the belgian jesuite Pierre-Jan Beckx. Beckx, to avoid confiscation of the library and suppression of the religious orders of Rome, stamped those manuscripts with he's ex-libris "Ex Bibliotheca privata P. Petri Beckx", to obfuscate them to be he's own private books. These books were later transferred to Castel Gandolfo, Villa Torlonia.
From 1912 some of those were transferred to Vatican Library, but a small part of these, were transferred to Villa Mondragone from where Voynich acquired some of them.
Last thing is about the dating. The APUG3289 has a title "Catalog of codex and prints acquired by the Library of Vatican on 1903", but the catalog is connected to two distinct transactions on 1911/1912 (Voynich) and 1912 (Vatican Library). The year 1903 might not be casual, as in that period the senate of the Italy approved the law of conservation of historical objects, allowing the state to have pre-emption in any historical book and manuscript sold. But it is still unclear why 1903 as the law was already in place.
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