Re: Locations of Dee/Kelly/Jacob Tepenecz/etc. cites in Prague?

[Jorge Stolfi <stolfi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

    > [Karl Kluge:] OK, fellow Voynaholics, what are the must see
    > sites in Prague for those interested in the
    > mystical/Voynich-related side of things?
    
If you wish to find new information about the VMS, the most important
thing is to have a local contact that is willing to help you
to libraries and such.  When Rene and I went there last february,
we were lucky to be guided by several extremely helpful people - Marcela and Kamil,
Michal Pober and his assistant, and Lubos Antonin (head of the Czech 
Natl. Museum).  Rene may have more to say, since it was he who 
got those contacts and arranged the meetings.

The most likely place to find new information is probably the Clementinum,
which currently houses the Prague branch of the Czech National Library.
Besides a huge collection of "ordinary" books, it also has a large
collection of rare books and manuscripts.
Rene and I spent about 8 hours total in the library, most of it 
searching through one single N-volume work (Schmidl's History of the Jesuits
in Bohemia).  Obviously there is a lot more to find there; perhaps
even Jacobus's own writings.  (We didn't know at the time, but
Jacobus's tomb, with a statue of him, was (is?) in the Clementinum's church.)

Another place that may be worth digging through is the Strahov
Monastery library. Rene and I visited it only as tourists; their
library is immense and apparently still being catalogued. The papers
of Marci's "intellectual heir" Nigroponte seem to be there, so perhaps
there one could find more information about Baresch. However, unlike
the Clementinum's, the Strahov library did not seem to be open to
public consultation; You'll probably need very good contacts to do
research there.


    > Hajek's house has
    > been mentioned -- where is that located? Also a "Faust" house. What else?

Hajek's house doesn't exist anymore; Michal Pober showed us the 
place where it used to be, which his assistant had recently discovered
through old city maps.

All the ebst,

--stolfi