Re: VMs: Re: over troubled water...

["Rafal T. Prinke" <rafalp@xxxxxxxxxx>]

DANA SCOTT wrote:

> Any further investigation into W.M.Voynich's youth would
> probably best be served by investigations in Telsze. It is a bit beyond my
> reach from here and I would be lost not being able to speak the local
> dialects. 

I do not really see the point of investigating it further
in so much detail. I will try to find more printed sources,
however. Actually, I have already gathered quite a lot but
want to check more. It appears that he did not study at any
of the universities usually mentioned - only a local pharmacy
school and later worked in a chemist's shop in Sandomierz
(central Poland) for a short time before he was arrested.

BTW: The Lithuanian language can hardly be called a "dialect"
- it is, together with Latvian and (extinct) Prussian, one
of the Baltic languges. Some linguist think it is the most
achaic of present day Indo-European languages (ie. the closest
to original). I guess this refers to the old Lithuanian,
or Samogitian (the area where Voynich was born), as
the present day Lithuanian is a 19th c. reconstruction
during the national revival.

> Spanish I can handle, which I see Wilfrid listed as a language
> that he spoke in one of the immigration logs. It seems to me that Wilfrid's
> command of languages and his interests in ancient manuscripts found all over
> Europe probably served him well in his political endeavors.

I also noticed that - but concluded that this:

  http://hum.amu.edu.pl/~rafalp/HERM/VMS/ellis/w23-1.gif

shows Voynich's entry on languages with "several", while
the long list refers to the person above him - Moriz Rosenthal,
a pianist. Otherwise the word "several" doesn't make sense.

Best regards,

Rafal
______________________________________________________________________
To unsubscribe, send mail to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxx with a body saying:
unsubscribe vms-list