Re: VMs: RE: Conclusions

[Nick Pelling <incoming@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi everyone,

> One simply has to ask the question "what value did an apparent herbal have
> in the 15th/16th century?".  If this manuscript contained beakers, obvious
> alchemical symbols, drawings of magical symbols, or something like that, I'd
> understand why some would consider it a hoax.  After all, the promise of
> extended life lay in the hands of the alchemists, not the lowly herbalists.

If I were to try to defend the hoax viewpoint from this kind of assault, I 
might suggest that one (or more) of the VMS' missing folios or quires could 
well have been contained alchemical-like imagery.

I have this great vision of Kelly sat in prison, writing his book on the 
Philosopher's Stone, with a pile of reference manuscripts to hand, 
including a (now lost) quire from the VMS. Why else would someone take an 
ordered, numbered MS like the VMS and remove pieces from it? :-)

However, if Kelly had also been the hoaxer behind the VMS, we can probably 
rule this out. :-)

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


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