Re: VMs: RE: Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2003 17:27:28 -0400

[Nick Pelling <incoming@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi everyone,

At 16:53 10/06/2003 -0500, GC wrote:
> There are several examples of
> personal herbals, unique and individual works of art, created over
> a period of time by an herbalist or doctor for his/her own use.  A
> very good example of one from the 15th century can be viewed in
> its entirety at the Schoenberg Center for Electronic Text and
> Imaging,
> http://dewey.library.upenn.edu/sceti/flash.cfm?CFID=796065&CFTOKEN
> =21357554

If (as I believe) you're referring to the Georg Hayniger MS, there are some 
nice gallows-like characters at the start of the paragraphs on pages 22v - 
24v. :-)
http://dewey.library.upenn.edu/sceti/ljs/PageLevel/index.cfm?ManID=ljs382&Page=47

This also has a load of recipes (with the almost obligatory iij's, 
frequently written as "m"): and, on page 57r - 60v, has some fragments of 
text written in Hayniger's "personal code", which looked like (at first 
glance) a monoalphabetic cipher (but I'm sure GC will be able to tell us 
for certain).
http://dewey.library.upenn.edu/sceti/ljs/PageLevel/index.cfm?ManID=ljs382&Page=113

There's also a different gallows-like character at the start of paragraphs 
on 72r-72v.
http://dewey.library.upenn.edu/sceti/ljs/PageLevel/index.cfm?ManID=ljs382&Page=143

Finally: I'm fascinated by the complex figure right at the end (f89r) - can 
anyone tell me what it is supposed to mean?
http://dewey.library.upenn.edu/sceti/ljs/PageLevel/index.cfm?ManID=ljs382&Page=177

All in all, it has everything you ever wanted from a straight-down-the-line 
alchemical manuscript. :-)

Cheers, .....Nick Pelling..... 


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