Re: VMs: [LONG] Voynich & semiotics (early notes)

[Dennis <tsalagi@xxxxxxxx>]

Nick Pelling wrote:
> 
> * Without a known social milieu, you have no cultural context to compare with

	As Nick says below, one can make a reasonable
hypothesis on the cultural context; we've been
attacking from this angle as well.  

> If the VMs hits our predicted date-band (1450-1600), then it would fall
> somewhat outside of Professor Eco's medieval research time-frame: but all
> the same, given the obvious challenges to semiotics the VMs poses and its
> likely connections with Northern Italy, it does seem quite strange (well,
> to me, at least) that he appears not to have written a single word on the
> subject. :-o

	I quite agree with Nick!  We'd be most interested in
what Professor Eco might have to say.  We can help in
getting you (and him) the best quality images
available.  

	As to the possible context, I'd like to add another
wild guess:  Brescia! Visit this web site:

http://www.voynich.nu/extra/vatg1291.html

Also note:

> Before that, the MS was owned by two Bishops of
> Brescia,

Thus, the VMs author(s) could have been in Brescia in
the early 1500's!  That's specific enough.

Dennis
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