Research that needs to be done / research ideas.

[Jorge_Stolfi]

I quote a Mr R Zandbergen commenting on Pelling's blog You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.

... an entry on the German wiki page about him:
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that he ended up at the court of Rudolf II. If this is true then, given his apparent interest in cipher, he could be entry #142 on the list of people who might have brought the Voynich MS to Prague.
On the Italian version:
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we read that he returned to Rome in 1614 and seems to have lost his mind by 1616....

Thanks!  So the "illuminati" in the title made sense for the original book, You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view..

Has H505 been digitized?  It would be interesting to know how many of the errors in the Borg copy were in the original, and how many were created by the copyist.

I suppose that the copyist who created the Borg version did not know Arabic.  If that is the case, it is an easy prediction that the Arabic script in the original was more, er, Arabic than in the copy.

All the best, --stolfi