And here is the site:
http://library.wustl.edu/units/spec/rarebooks/semeiology/cryptography.html
> [Rene:] [Re Barchius book at Osterreichische Nationalbibliothek]
> I have a feeling of deja vu though...
Now that you mention it... Yes, back in March/2002! At that time,
thanks to Google and a providential typing error on my part, I
stumbled on a list of three books attributed to "Georg Barchius".
Unfortunately Rafal quickly pointed out that the author of those books
was a certain Johann Conrad Barchusen.
However, that did not explain where the name "Georg Barchius" came
from. The source in question was a bibliography on the history of
pharmacy at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, maintained by a
research group called "Folchia". Apparently the bibligraphy did
contain an entry for "Georg Barchius", but some mixup occurred
somewhere, which the result that Barchusen's name got dropped, and his
books were listed ju! st after the name "Georg Barchius".
I wrote to the group's address, and got this reply (with my comments
in brackets):
> Dear friend:
>
> The name "barchius" appears in any [=some --JS] edition of
> Barchusen's works at de Biblioteca Nacional de Madrid. While I
> was doing my "Tesis Doctoral" I've seen it. I'll see my notes
> again and I'll go to the National Libray someday nextly, may be
> this week. Then I'll writte you again and, I hope, can say you
> more about it. But you must be sure that if the name Barchius is
> relationated with the works of Barchusen in our web, may be for
> any reason. So I think that Barchius is a latinized form used in
> any edition and it haven't relation with the Barschius you're
> looking for.
[I am not convinced by that explanation, since there are dozens of
webpages out there on J. C. Barchusen, and none of them mentions the
supposed alias Barchius. Moreover, it does not explain why Barchius
first name is "Georg". But let's wait and see.]
> Now I'm analizing some correspondence between A. Kircher with J.
> Caramuel. In other side I'm doing the same with the relation
> between Lana-Terzi (You know him?) and A. Kircher to try to
> establishe a relation with the three ones and alchemy. Sorry for
> my bad english.
[I don't know whether they have seen Rene's pages with the letters
to Kircher. I will mention that just to be sure.]
> PD: Excellent your work about the Voynich ms., really! May be you, or any
> other person, send us a litle abstract (6/7 pages) to insert in the new
> number of our review "Panacea"?
[I won't have the time to do this; any takers? Gabriel and Rene,
what about the Aesculapius article?]
> GRUPO FOLCHIA
> Historia de la Farmacia
> Facultad de Farmacia, U.C.M.
> Plaza de Ramón y Cajal, s/n
> 28040-MADRID
> Tlfno.: 91.394.17.95
> e-mail: folchia@xxxxxxxxxxx
> web: http://www.ucm.es/info/folchia/
I then tried the librarians at UCM, and eventually got information
from Cristina Ortiz of the Facultad de Farmacia Library that all
historical books from all UCM libraries had been gathered at the
Biblioteca Histórica; but Mercedes Cabello of the latter said that
they had no record of any book by "Georg Barchius".
And there that lead, unfortunately, died...
... until now, it seems! I presume that Miguel López was the anonymous
compiler of the Folchia bibliography with whom I corresponded in 2002,
and that he finally found the source of the "Georg Barchius" entry ---
not in Madrid, as he had thought, but in Vienna.
So, anyone got hold of that book? Could its author be our Georg
Baresch? Does the book give any other clues about the author?
All the best,
--stolfi
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