Re: VMs: new revelations

[Nick Pelling <incoming@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 14:36 02/01/03 -0500, James A. Landau wrote:
> David Kahn (_The Code-breakers_  New York: Macmillan, 1967, page 864) writes:
>
> "The presence of the [Voynich] manuscript at his [Rudolf II's] court in
> Prague was later proved by the discovery in a margin of the autograph of
> Johannes de Tepenecz, a Bohemian scientist who was a favorite of Rudolf."
>
> Is Kahn correct?  If he is, then we know the Voynich MS was in existence in
> Rudolf's time.  If not...

As Bill Clinton (or, in fact, any slippery lawyer in a tight corner) might 
say, it all depends on what you (and, indeed, Kahn) mean by "proved"... :-o

But still, why would de Tepenecz' autograph have been removed in the first 
place?

*ducks quickly to avoid flame storm* :-)

Cheers, .....Nick Pelling.....

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