Voynich MS not(?) in Rudolf's Kunstkammer inventory...

[Rene Zandbergen <rene@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Dear all,

I finally had a chance to read the publication about the inventory of
Rudolf's Kunstkammer (museum), which I mentioned before. It is 
extremely interesting, and I will write about this at some length on
my web site in the near future, but a quick summary follows here.
The inventory, written by hand by one Daniel Froesch, successor to
Octavio Strada, is started on 1 May 1607, and then maintained up to
1611. These dates are important as 1607 is roughly the time that
Jacobus Horcicky arrived at Rudolf's court, and 1611 is when Rudolf
abdicated.
The publication has a lengthy, very interesting, introduction about
Rudolf's collection followed by a complete transcription of the 
(German) text of the inventory. There are some copies of pages
of the book, showing Froeschl's handwriting to be very different
from any annotations found in the VMs, except the page numbers,
which are very similar indeed (i.e. typical of the area/period).
I'll show some samples.

The items are numbered and the most interesting section (Rudolf's
books) cover nrs 2576 - 2814 (plus a few more in the middle).
I did not find any entry in the long list that is a clear description
of the VMs (compared with the clear description in the Baresch
letter), but at least one of them is tantalizing. In (17th C) German:

 2585.  In folio.  Ein _philosophisch_ alt geschriben buch mit
        figurn und ein copey uff pergamen geschriben vom Mathes
        Do"rrer, ungebunden, welchs nit gantz beysamen und herr
        Haiden auB bevelch I. Mt: etliche bletter davon genommen.

approximately:

   an old philosophical (hand)written book with figures
   and a copy on parchment written by (or from) Mathes Doerrer,
   unbound, not completely together, and Mr. Haiden by order of
   his majesty several leaves taken from it.

I'm not sure about 'auss bevelch' either. Could this also mean
'from which'?
If this is not the VMs, then we have the problem that it must
either never have entered R's Kunstkammer, or he parted with
it before 1607 (the Pontanus connection?). However, from the
descriptions in the article it would seem very out of character
for R. to part with any item in his collection.
Finally, quite a few items in the inventory are marked as:
'with his majesty', indicating that R kept them near himself.
These are mostly 'magical' items.

So, if anyone with better German knowledge can clarify what,
above, is the meaning of 'copey', and what, precisely, were
the roles of Messrs Doerrer and Haiden above, we might know
more.
There are other very brief entries among the 250 which could
potentially mean the VMs, but, like I said, I will write about
this at more length a bit later. The book descriptions are
10 pages, typewritten, so I'll see if they can be reasonably
scanned.

Cheers, Rene