Re: Jacobus' signature

["Rafal T. Prinke" <rafalp@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Rene Zandbergen wrote:
> 
> Karl Kluge wrote:
> 
> > Rene wrote:
> >
> > > Personally, I never saw anything suspicious in the Jacobus signature. Surely

> > That was my initial reaction as well...but what if a forger read that letter
> > and constructed a fake MSS to fit, then forged the Marci letter in the
> > expectation it would lead back to Baresch?
> 
> No.  (I say with calm assuredness :-)

My original remark that the existence of another MS signed by 
Jacobus z Tepence convinced me that the one on VMS was genuine
did not intend to question the VMS history from Baresch on.
My point was that Voynich's "special light" and "chemicals"
applied to see the signature were not really convincing.
I am not sure, but has anyone else actually seen 
that signature? I mean, those who inspected it or wrote
about it?

> Marci once inherited the alchemical library of the otherwise completely
> unknown Georg Baresch. This is a detail contained in the Prague
> civil records. It is just not credible that the forger could have known
> this.

Is there any reference to that source? It should contain at least
some hint on who the elusive Georg Baresch was. If the inheritance
was recorded in the municipal (rather than civil - there were
no civil records at that time and they would not contain
such information anyway) records of Prague, then it can be nothing
else than Baresch's will. A copy of it could be a real treasure
of information!

Best regards,

Rafal