New video: "Is the Voynich Manuscript fake?"

[Mark Knowles]

Koen: In your Voynich Temple article entitled "Bonsai Perspective" you say the following->

"Arlima lists 37 manuscripts. I tried all of them, but the search was long and full of problems; an overview, following Arlima’s list:

Basel: its illustrations have been cut out.
Berlin: not digitized?
Bruges: not digitized
Brussels: not digitized
Erfurt: not digitized
Firenze: not digitized
Göttingen: not digitized
Klagenfurt: not digitized?
Klosterneuburg: not digitized
Krakow, not illustrated
Kremsmunster, not digitized
Kremsmunster, not digitized
L’Aquila not digitized
Leipzig not digitized, no mention of illustrations in description
Luneburg not digitized
Macreata not digitized
Milan not digitized (?)
Montpellier, not illustrated
München: not digitized
München: not digitized
München: not digitized
Oxford: not digitized, no mention of illustrations in description
BNF Lat 8018: not illustrated
BNF Lat 8758: not illustrated
BNF Lat 10363: not illustrated
BNF NAL 1905: only one illustration
Prague, not illustrated
Stuttgart not illustrated
Stuttgart not illustrated
Uppsala not digitized
BAV Ott.lat.1463a not illustrated
BAV Ross. 1097: not digitized
BAV Vat.Lat.4363: not digitized
ONB 5363 not illustrated
Wolfenbüttel: no mention of illustrations in description
Wolfenbüttel: no mention of illustrations in description
Wroclaw: ???"


This list serves as an example of the extent to which documents have not been digitised. You mention an Oxford manuscript and a Milan manuscript. I live in Oxford and I am going to Milan, so I could potentially investigate either of those. I notice that in other posts you have made on related topics you have mentioned other manuscripts that you were interested in that have not been digitised. If you are still interested in them and they are in Lombardy or within a reasonable distance of Oxford I might be able to check them out. Obviously, the more potentially interesting a manuscript is the more reason there is to find a way to get to see it. One can always request photoreproductions from archives. It might help if you could put all manuscripts that you think might be interesting into one list giving reasons why you think they might be interesting. (If/when I visit Rome in the future there are manuscripts that other people recommend that I photograph when there then I could potentially do that.) Possibly other researchers near or visiting other archives could similarly take photos of relevant manuscripts there.