14-10-2025, 08:49 AM
(13-10-2025, 11:34 PM)proto57 wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.By the way, it might be of interest to see this... I was trying to identify the watermark on one of the Carteggio Marci letters, and it is different than the 1665/66 letter. That alone tells us that Marci... if the Marci letter "found" in the Voynich is real... used a different paper than at least one of his letters, without doing a chain/line count. As Lisa suggested, and I long wished for, it would be very interesting to see all the Marci letters in the Carteggio, and elsewhere, to see when... and if... he ever used a paper with the three hat watermark.
A match would be interesting information, but a failure to find a match would not be, right? Marci must have written more than a hundred letters per year, not to mention notes, worksheets, book extracts, laundry lists, ... And he had secretaries writing for him. I imagine that they would buy paper in packets of 100-200 at most. Therefore it would not be surprising if two letters written decades apart, one by Marci and one by his secretary, used paper from different makers.
All the best, --jorge