Re: VMs: Voynich at the Art Insitute of Chicago

["DANA SCOTT" <dscott520@xxxxxxx>]

The following contains information regarding Dr. Frank Wakeley Gunsaulus
(1856-1921):

http://www.iit.edu/about/history.html
http://www.iit.edu/publications/catalyst/Fall99/cover.html
http://archives.iit.edu/history/armour/pg2_frankGunsaulus.html
http://archives.iit.edu/history/armour/pg2.html
http://library.owu.edu/fr7ar2.htm

Connection to Art Institute of Chicago:
http://archives.iit.edu/history/armour/pg4.html

Additional Portraits: (select Gunsaulus,Frank W.)
(click on portraits to enlarge)
http://learning.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpcoop/ichihtml/cdnSubjects140.html

Regards,
Dana Scott

----- Original Message -----
From: "Rene Zandbergen" <r_zandbergen@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <vms-list@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, May 26, 2003 2:20 AM
Subject: Re: VMs: Voynich at the Art Insitute of Chicago


>
> --- Xavier Ceccaldi <ceccaldi@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > In 1915, the Art Institute of Chicago placed on view
> > a group of manuscripts and illuminated volumes from
> > the collection of Voynich.  [...]
> > The two articles are transcribed in full and the
> > paper is resumed here :
> > http://geocities.com/vms408/. Some of the
> > manuscripts are identified.
>
> Very nice indeed!
>
> Voynich 'firmly believed' that the VMs was really
> from the hand of Roger Bacon. I think it is safe
> to say that he was wrong (?).
> How right was he about the other items? (Magellan
> map, oldest set of playing cards....)
> Probably it does not matter.
>
> I had wondered before who was Frank Gunsaulus. Do I
> understand correctly that he was a curator of the
> Chicago Art Institute?
>
> Cheers, Rene
>
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