Re: Voynich sources in a role playing game

["Dana F. Scott" <dfscott@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dear Adam,
     Thank you very much for the clarification/correction in reference. I agree
that modern devised symbols would be suspect and could easily be taken out of
context and would probably not be appropriate for the VMS study.

Regards,
Dana Scott

Adam McLean wrote:

> >Here are a couple of other interesting sets of symbols which you may have seen
> >before.
> >The fourth one down the right hand column in the first URL here looks
> >familiar:
> >http://jhubbard.home.mindspring.com/alchemy/processes.html
> >http://jhubbard.home.mindspring.com/alchemy/gold.html
>
> Dana,
>
> Please note, these are from a fantasy role playing game,
> not directly from original alchemical sources contemporary
> with the Voynich. These are  embellishments devised by
> people for the Ars Magna  role playing game game in
> the past few years ! As the home page states :
>
> "Welcome to the library of the Ebon Tome. This site is
> a collection of articles of possible use to fantasy role
> players"
>
> To see the kind of alchemical symbols found in actual
> real alchemical manuscripts you could take a look at
> the alchemy web site.
>
> Research in depth and in context is surely a prerequisite !
>
> Adam McLean
>
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