Re: VMS rotoscopes at the British Library...?

[reeds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Jim Reeds)]

On Aug 6, 19:13, Nick Pelling wrote:

> Subject: VMS rotoscopes at the British Library...?
> Hi everyone,
.....
> Also: in the Manuscript Section card index, Voynich refers to MS * 461 and 
> MS * 439. Does anyone know what MS * 439 is?

According to www.research.att.com/~reeds/voynich/bib.html,
this file contains:

  Positive photocopies of miscellaneous folios of Voynich MS, misc.
  VMS correspondence of R. Steele, 1921, and misc. VMS articles.
  (Contains: 68r1/68r2, 65v/66r, 78v/79r, 107v/108r, 108v/111r,
  111v/112r, 112v/113r, 1r, and 116v. Correspondence includes letters
  to Steele from W. Voynich, W. Newbold, and from A. W. Pollard.
  Articles include: clipping from <i>Morning Post</i> newpaper,
  26.9.21, ``Astrological Anagrams: the Diary of Roger Bacon,''
  clipping from <i>Daily Chronicle</i> newspaper, n.d., ``Key to
  Cypher in historic MS. / America's new light on Roger Bacon / 600
  years' mystery,'' pencilled draft of article by Steele, photostat
  of typed lecture notes by Newbold (?), copy of J. Manly's
  <i>Harper's</i> article, copy of Louis Cons 4 Feb 1922 article.)

When I saw it in Sept 1998 I got the impression it was R. Steele's
own personal VMS file; Steele was (I think) at one time the
British Museum's Keeper of Manuscripts.  Sorry to be so late
in answering this.

Jim

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