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1608 as we know refers to when Jacobus Horcicky received his title "de
Tepenecz" from Rudolf II.
I believe that the following quote from Brumbaugh refers to the mysterious
date in question:
"After some work with ultraviolet light on folio 1r, my son Robert Conrad
Brumbaugh, who was assisting me, proved that indeed someone had recognized the
Bacon attribution cipher and had written it here in the margin. It is now
badly obliterated and faded. In very small numbers, just above this table,
is a date 1*30, the * illegible. Now, 1630 would fall into the period
between the death of Tepenecz (in 1622) and Marchi's inheriting the manuscript
(prior to 1644). At first, I thought the table might be earlier, a
deliberate invitation to any would-be purchaser to read the "Bacon" cipher in
the key. But we now favor the 1630 date, and assume that the writer of
this table, having found that it read the key text, hoped that it would work for
the balance of the cipher manuscript text as well. So here is one reason
for an attribution to "Rodg." Bacon."
("The Most Mysterious Manuscript, The Voynich "Roger Bacon" Cipher
Manuscript", edited by Robert S. Brumbaugh, Southern Illinois University Press,
Feffer & Simons, Inc., 1978, pp.115-116)
Regards,
Dana Scott
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