Yes, thank you for the correction. Regards, Dana Scott ----- Original Message ----- From: Gabriel Landini Sent: Friday, November 29, 2002 2:36 AM To: voynich@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: VMs: Re: Rt. Reverend Eugene Xavier Henri Hyvernat 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
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