17-10-2016, 04:25 AM
Sam,
The spurious identification of one of the plants as a Sunflower completely skewed the research for a while, but did add to its interest for Americans. It also helps explain why Panofsky felt he had to adjust his original evaluation. I doubt he really believed it so late, but he wasn't likely to engage in a public dispute over such a minor matter, though even when making that adjustment (supposing the Spanish Jews must have been elsewhere post 1492) he only posited a date which would have been within the lifetime of someone who had emigrated from Spanish territories as an adult.
Not sure when Brumbaugh first arrived at Yale, but he and the librarian worked well together and perhaps that had something to do with it. No-one in Europe wanted the MS.
The spurious identification of one of the plants as a Sunflower completely skewed the research for a while, but did add to its interest for Americans. It also helps explain why Panofsky felt he had to adjust his original evaluation. I doubt he really believed it so late, but he wasn't likely to engage in a public dispute over such a minor matter, though even when making that adjustment (supposing the Spanish Jews must have been elsewhere post 1492) he only posited a date which would have been within the lifetime of someone who had emigrated from Spanish territories as an adult.
Not sure when Brumbaugh first arrived at Yale, but he and the librarian worked well together and perhaps that had something to do with it. No-one in Europe wanted the MS.