VMs: Re: RE:New Guy on the Block

["DANA SCOTT" <dscott520@xxxxxxx>]

Hello Dan,

It is pleasing to know that there are other discussion groups out in the
'ethernet' interested in the Voynich Manuscript. I encourage you to keep up
the good work. While your enthusiasm is boundless, alas, it does not appear
that there is a direct correlation between your latest find and the VMS,
even as an original manuscript painfully miscopied over the centuries. You
can sense the similarities, though I would say no more similar than a hyena
is to a wolf. When you stated that there were no drawings I instinctively
sensed that this was not by the same scribe, even before seeing your sample.
The author of the VMS was very much visually oriented. The drawings in the
VMS brought to life the 'color' in the scribe's imagination. As you have
suggested, the scribe of the Qusus Manuscript may very well have come from a
haunt somewhere east of Java.

Regards,
Dana Scott


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From: "dangibson" <canbooks@xxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2003 11:46 AM
Subject: VMs: RE:New Guy on the Block


>
> 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
>
>
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