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Would a NEW Voynich Manuscript be valuable?
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(16-01-2026, 12:15 AM)Bluetoes101 wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Dee basically abandoned Kelly and travelled back to England to plead with the queen to have Kelly released.

Was it Dee, or some other English diplomat in Prague?  

Dee's breakup with Kelley is described in Dee's diary.  It was the episode that changed my view of the European Middle Ages from a depressingly boring time to a most interesting one.  

Dee took Kelley into his household because Kelley claimed to be able to talk to "angels" through a crystal ball, something that Dee had been trying hard but with no success.  Kelley kept duping Dee all the time, through their trip to Prague and continuing after Dee was banished from the city.  The thing Dee most wanted to know from the "angels" was how to decipher the Tables of Soyga (that were cracked by Jim Reeds just ~25 years ago).   The "angels" kept telling Dee that he was not "ready" yet, but they would reveal the key in due time.  

Dee kept asking Kelley to talk to the "angels" when they were in Bohemia.  This apparently annoyed Kelly since Dee was at that point only a liability.  So one day Kelly told Dee that the "angels" had ordered that he and Dee should swap their wives.  (It was only a coincidence, of course, that Dee's wife was much younger than Kelley's.)  Dee was quite upset, but he was so desperate for the "angels'" advice that he actually asked his wife to do it.  Which she naturally refused.  Only then Dee admitted to himself that he had been tricked. (IIRC he still kept trusting Kelley and blamed the "angels" instead, as being evil manifestations or whatever).  But anyway that was the end of their "collaboration".

All the best, --stolfi
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RE: Would a NEW Voynich Manuscript be valuable? - by Jorge_Stolfi - 16-01-2026, 05:10 AM

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