VMs: To be researched ...

["Petr Kazil" <kazil@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Don't laugh! In the May edition of the British "UFO Magzine" there is a
reference to several old manuscripts that contain descriptions and even
pictures of weird phenomena. I haven't had the time to check if these books
really exist, but the pictures are really worth a look. Two quotes with
references:

*** In his book "Liber Prodigiorium", Obsequens catalogued no less than 63
celestial happenings.

*** The 16th century was a mini-renaissance for things fortean with Pierre
Boasistuau's 1594 tome, "Histories Prodigieuses" and Conrad Lycostene's 1557
"Prodigiorus ac Ostentorum Chronicon". Both books are richly illustrated and
feature a number of UFO accounts.

NB - I'm not a UFO believer, I just cant resist all the weird stories.

I haven't done much Voynich research lately. I'm reading a book on Jean de
Mandeville to get an idea of how professional Medievists research old
manuscripts and traditions. I've also read pieces of a research on the
medieval sources for Dante's Hell, Heaven and Purgatory motifs. Really
interesting and stimulating, but it only shows how much knowledge you have
to master before you can  interpret old the middle ages or renaissance.

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