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There are some similarities, but from my eye it is an entirely different
script. The document you present was obviously wirtten
right-to-left. I "flipped" (Oh no! Not Flipped and Folded!) the page to
show a mirror image as it if were written left to right and still don't see much
in a match. Perhaps more knowledgeable people than I will discover
something. To me it looks like wowu wo wu wo Pu8 wo wuwuwo lliill wu
wowowu <grin>
****************************** Larry Roux Syracuse University lroux@xxxxxxx ******************************* >>> canbooks@xxxxxxxxx 04/30/03 02:46PM >>> Since coming across the Voynich Manuscript and your discussions, we at Nabataea.net have been scrambling to do some Middle Eastern research connected to the VMS. Today we hit pay dirt. Recently a manuscript changed hands in the Middle East (Feb 2003) that contains a script similar to that found in the VMS. This manuscript was obtained by Dr. Nayyif Qusus of Amman Jordan and is currently located in his personal collection at the Neumistic Museum in Amman. Dr. Qusus holds a Phd in Early Islamic Coins, and he trades in ancient coins and buys ancient curios from Arabs. The manuscript was obtained by Dr. Qusus around February 2003 (pre-Iraq war). It is around 1/2 thick, with a leather cover. It contains only text, and no illustrations. It is written in an unknown language. The nabataea.net reader who brought this to our attention possessed a photocopy of a single page from the manuscript. We obtained this on April 30th 2003. It can be viewed at http://nabataea.net/manus.html. I spoke with Dr. Qusus on the telephone and he promised to photocopy some more pages for me. He also mentioned that some of the pages contain notes in another language. He said that it appeared to be an Arabic script (Dr. Qusus is an Arab) but the language is not Arabic. Hopefully he photocopies some of these pages for us. I have called this the Qusus Manuscript after Dr. Nayyif Qusus. I know of no history to this manuscript, and we may not be able to trace it's history as many items that change hands in the Middle East have no previous owners, and cash is usually paid. Please have a look at the page I've posted on the Internet and let me know if you think it is the same script or a related cousin, or perhaps the original script before European monks corrupted it. Dan Gibson nabataea.net ______________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, send mail to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxx with a body saying: unsubscribe vms-list |