The Book Switch Theory

[Jorge_Stolfi]

You can find that information [about Baresch] at the biographies page that I already listed.

Thanks, René, but there are a few bits I I did not see there:

• Wasn't his "real" name Jiŕi Bareš ?  I recall this from the mailing list days or from the Frascati conference, but don't know whether it was a fact or someone's guess...
  
• Was his place of work at the Prague Castle, or somewhere else in Prague?  Ditto...
  
• How reliable is the "no record at Sapieza" bit? "There exists a complete list of diplomas, and he is not in it", or "His name is not in any of the lists of graduates that we could find"?
  
• Is it correct to say that Wilfrid himself never proposed Jacobus as a probable owner of the VMS before Barschius?  That this theory only came up in the mailing list days, when we discovered the signature and Wilfrid's photograph?
  

The fact that Barschius studied at the Sapienza provides another plausible history for the VMS: he picked it up at Rome, or along the way to/from there.  It would better explain the "North Italy" character of the illustrations.  (But that assuming that the You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. "signature" is forged, of course.  Was Jacobus ever in Italy?)

All the best, --stolfi