VMs: Re: Rt. Reverend Eugene Xavier Henri Hyvernat

[Rene Zandbergen <r_zandbergen@xxxxxxxxx>]

--- DANA SCOTT <dscott520@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> The Rt. Rev. Eugene Xavier Henri Hyvernat
> (1858-1941), prominent scholar of Coptic languages
> and "first faculty member" at the Catholic
> University of America, was acquainted with the
> Voyniches and received a copy of the Voynich
> manuscript following Wilfred's death in 1930.

There is a bit more to say about him, see
also my history page:
http://www.voynich.nu/history.html

He was in the Gregorian University in Rome
at about the time that the Jesuit order was
being suppressed, and the books which later
surfaced in the Mondragone were probably
being sneaked out in time.

Coincidence? Probably....

Cheers, Rene 

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