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Re: VMs: signature

Hi Jan,

At 16:36 02/06/2004 -0500, you wrote: 
Working from the negative, I got clearer view and it certainly looks like
"Horczicky 3 Tepenec", 3 being the old form of "z" meaning "de" in Latin.
Proper expression in Czech would be of course "Tepence" due to declination
  - that  is the form Horczicky would sign it, see
http://www.angelfire.com/electronic2/ohlas/VM/b25.htm   ,

but the handwriting is nothing like his.

Don't forget that people often used multiple "hands" - IIRC, John Dee's italic hand was unbelievably neat, while his secretarial hand was unbelievably sloppy. In the case of Horczicky, I suspect that we don't yet have enough examples of his handwriting to be able to attribute this satisfactorily... but perhaps there are more out there waiting to be found! :-)

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


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