The Book Switch Theory

[asteckley]

Indeed... Until yesterday, my probabilities were something like:  

• 50% for (A) the name on You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. is genuine in Jacobus's own hand, 
  
• 30% for (B) it is someone else's annotation made sometime before Wilfrid got it, 
  
• 20% for © it was forged by Wiflrid to support the Rudolf II claim.
  

But now that I have looked more carefully at those images on Rene's page, I have reversed my opinion: 5% (A), 20% (B), 75% ©...
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And that is why I now am leaning much more towards © than even (B)...

Jorge— I believe you have essentially retraced much of the logical path that Richard SantaColoma has followed regarding the You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. signature!

Rich will likely be pleased to see that there is now a “convert” among us. (I say that with tongue-in-cheek, though. From what I have come to know of Rich, he is not really motivated by gathering converts; he is genuinely just interested in following the data wherever it leads.)

I, however, am not yet a complete convert myself. The broader network of connections linking the VMS to Marci, Kircher, and ultimately to Rudolph II—and especially to Hořčický via the signature that is ostensibly his—is tenuous to be sure, though.