Re: FATE magazine

[Dennis <ixohoxi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Daniel Harms wrote:
> 
>         I don't recall anything being mentioned about this, so here goes.
> The latest coverage of the Voynich in a popular forum appears in an
> article called "The Books of the Damned:  Fact or Fiction?" by Scott
> Corrales, in the July issue of FATE.

	This article claims (p. 22) that Voynich showed the VMs to H. O.
Yardley soon after purchasing it.  
It's plausible, but I've never heard of it.  It also says that Yardley
was the one to come up
with the ubiquitous sobriquet "the most mysterious manuscript".  This I
doubt, but I don't whether it
was Brumbaugh who came up with it either.

	There's a good color image of f78r, better than the one on Yale's VMs
gallery.

	The article's worst misstatement is that Brumbaugh "determin[ed] that
the document probably concerned the alchemical elixir of life".  :)  I
wonder where they got this.  

Dennis