(12-03-2026, 04:29 PM)proto57 wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.At least, knowing this, now, the official claim "he could not and would not have known" will no longer be claimed, right?
Gosh, Rich, I guess I'll just have to grit my teeth and concede as gracefully as possible that if Voynich had access to Google Books in the 1890's or early 'aughts he would have had no problem making the connection between Sinapius and Tepenc.
Issues of how he could have found any of those references aside (I suppose it's plausible that the British Library had a copy of "Konfessy Katholicka", but without there being a good index of the periodicals referenced it's implausible that he would have just started randomly leafing through back issues of "Alterhümer und Denkwürdigkeiten Bömens" on the off chance), the question isn't could he have found the connection -- that's looking at the problem backwards with the benefit of hindsight -- but rather, why in the context of creating the forgery would he have gone looking for it not knowing about it beforehand.
Meanwhile, in the absence of a letter from Voynich to someone saying, "My latest copy of Communications of the Association for the History of Germans in the Sudetenland just showed up, and I can't wait to read it cover-to-cover," color me skeptical.