VMs: Re: Rt. Reverend Eugene Xavier Henri Hyvernat

[Gabriel Landini <G.Landini@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Friday 29 Nov 2002 5:09 am, DANA SCOTT 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.

Actually the story goes that in 1931 Mrs. V. took a set of photostats to 
Hyvernat and Petersen made a further copy from it from which he transcribed 
by hand.

Cheers,

Gabriel