Re: VMs: Re: Contacting Wilfrid Gaye...?

[Rene Zandbergen <r_zandbergen@xxxxxxxxx>]

--- Nick Pelling <incoming@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I've just had a nice chat with Wilfrid Gaye on the
> phone: his mother Winifred [...] 

> [...] - as Rafal suspected - the manuscript
> smuggled out of Russia *was* the one in 1889
> for Stepniak, and *not* the VMS. He said
> he would shortly be posting a follow-up on the
> same BBC4 forum to confirm this.

Well done, both to you and Rafal.
Right now, I don't think that there is anyhting
contradictory left in the information gathered
about Wilfred, Ethel and the discovery of the 
VMs.
Of course, a number of items are still 'strange':
- Did WMV really think that the VMs was from the
  hand of Roger Bacon, before he read the Marci
  letter?
- The accidental discovery of the erased signature
  of Jacobus de Tepenec is still odd, though not
  impossible.
- The note that the VMs was in the private collection
  of P.Beckx seems to be missing (but many others
  are as well).

I still think that WVM was a very clever man who
could take care of himself and make a successful
business from rare book dealing without knowing too
much about the subject (at least in the beginning).

The mystery of the VMs in the period from (say)
1575 to (say) 1622 is far deeper, let alone the
period before that.
About the later period, further information
may well still be available in Bohemia.

Cheers, Rene



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