Arnold Hunt points out (in a publication about Voynich preceding his essay in the Yale volume about the Voynich MS), that Voynich's first catalogues, printed around 1900, used Proctor numbers to classify incunables, and only Baer in Frankfurt was earlier in doing this.
Voynich personally knew Proctor, who was as the British library, and one of his main clients.
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