Mark Knowles > 07-12-2022, 06:18 PM
davidjackson > 07-12-2022, 08:59 PM
Mark Knowles > 07-12-2022, 10:14 PM
(07-12-2022, 08:59 PM)davidjackson Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.I would say that a lot of cipher letters from your time would have ended up in state or noble family archives, so would have had a higher probability of surviving than most correspondence of the era.
LisaFaginDavis > 07-12-2022, 10:39 PM
Mark Knowles > 07-12-2022, 11:04 PM
(07-12-2022, 10:39 PM)LisaFaginDavis Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.It's a tough journey from there-and-then to here-and-now...not just victims of the predictable dangers of fire, flood, war, rodents, etc.
Mark Knowles > 08-12-2022, 12:53 AM
(07-12-2022, 10:39 PM)LisaFaginDavis Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.No one really knows, of course, but a recent analysis estimated it could be as high as 90%.Which makes one wonder what other fascinating medieval documents have been lost to history.
Like its fellow medieval manuscripts, the VMS is a heroic little survivor!
Emma May Smith > 08-12-2022, 01:52 AM
LisaFaginDavis > 08-12-2022, 02:45 AM
Mark Knowles > 08-12-2022, 01:43 PM
Emma May Smith > 08-12-2022, 03:48 PM
(08-12-2022, 02:45 AM)LisaFaginDavis Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Don't even get me started about the Cotton Fire, Emma! It's amazing anything survived that blaze. Here's a nice article about the conservation of the remnants that survived that night in 1731: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.