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RE: Archive Proximity
hatoncat > 5 hours ago
(7 hours ago)Yavernoxia Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.
(8 hours ago)Mark Knowles Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.I have very recently been contacted by two different researchers wanting to look at my very large 15th/14th century cipher archive. However, I would really like to be contacted by researchers wanting to help me expand my cipher archive.
I live in Italy, more precisely in Padua. I travel a lot around the country, so if you have any specific requests involving an archive near a major city, I can probably help
Last year I visit the Milan State Archives to see if I could locate more ciphers. This was interesting, although I was unable to locate any surviving ciphers from a period 1425-1439 that I am particularly interested in. I intend to visit the Biblioteca Bonetta in Pavia and the University Library in Pavia later this year unless someone else does the work beforehand.
I think it would be of value for someone to search the Vatican Apostolic Archives for early 15th century ciphers. I intend to do this at some stage if nobody does it.
There are other archives which may well be worth searching.
Is there anyone else who is up for doing archival research in Italian archives?
Honestly, a few weeks ago, the only place I was thinking of visiting in Italy was the Chiesa di San Barnaba, the location used for the fictional Venetian library in the third Indiana Jones movie (1989): You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.
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I thought it would be funny if I ask the receptionist if they would play along with to pretending to stamp a book with a due date while I search for the catacomb, but then I realize they probably get a lot of tourists who ask the same thing.