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

[ajb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

Hello

Rafal wrote

>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.

One source suggests six languages.

"In the course of the years, we have had many customers and
a few stand out for their oddness. One was W.M. Voynich
who used to visit us in my father's day. He was a bookseller
of Polish origins who worked variously in London and New
York. My father claimed he spoke six languages, all of them
with an accent. I recall seeing him sitting in a taxicab outside
our store, chatting for a long time with my father. Although he
lived in metropolises much larger than Philadelphia, he always
took a taxi to our place because he claimed the crossing at
22d & Woodland Avenue was the most dangerous in the
world. We used to cross it as a matter of course. In the early
part of the century, he used to issue catalogues with books
printed prior to 1500 (incunables) at prices varying from
$5.00 to $10.00."

George Allen
[Speech presented at the Philobiblion Club, Febuary 11, 1997.]


Regards

Anthony



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