10-09-2025, 05:12 PM
(This post was last modified: 10-09-2025, 05:12 PM by Jorge_Stolfi.)
(10-09-2025, 04:41 AM)ReneZ wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.It is interesting to entertain the thought that, somewhere, in some library or archive, there is a manuscript that sheds some real light into the mystery of the Voynich MS.
It would be great, but I fear that the search universe is too big for such document to be found by accident. The best chance, I think, is that sleuths like you can trace the VMS back in time to its author, or at least to the town where he lived. Then we may canvass the local libraries and archives, and the papers of those who may have interacted with him...
The VMS survived mostly thanks to one lucky accident: Barschius writing to Kircher and getting him interested enough to want to get it. Otherwise the manuscript would probably have remained in Prague after Barchius death. It may have sat "uselessly gathering dust on the shelf" of another obscure owner or two, and then discarded to make way for a bowl of petunias...
All the best, --jorge