Re: VMs: Golden fleece, was Mad Kircher ...

[Dennis <tsalagi@xxxxxxxx>]

Nick Pelling wrote:
> 
> This particular page gives a history of the Order, and links it with
> Trebizond (circa 1430, Colchis [Jason's destination], was part of the
> Trebizond Empire of the Comnena family):-
>          http://www.antiquesatoz.com/sgfleece/origins.htm

	Egad!  One of Rene's theories is that George of
Trebizond 
wrote the VMs:

http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06456a.htm

	His time, b. 1395; d. in Rome, 1486, is about right.

	Rene?

Dennis
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