Re: VMs: Rylands Latin MS 228...

[Rene Zandbergen <r_zandbergen@xxxxxxxxx>]

--- Nick Pelling <incoming@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Finally: a nice page on Michael Scot's (supposed)
> Magic Book (actually 
> dating from the 16th Century, and wrongly attributed
> to Michael Scot), held 
> at John Rylands. Curiously, the "sham Arabic" text
> (in the first diagram) 
> looks like a badly Europeanised version of siyaqat -
> if I didn't know 
> better, I'd say it was either written in a cipher or
> hoaxed by Edward Kelly 
> (sounds familiar?). I wonder if there's a
> transcription of this anywhere... :-)

Reminds me of the alphabet(s) of Agrippa, 
more than anything else. 

Cheers, Rene

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