RE: VMs: Search for missing folios, quires et al.

["John Grove" <John@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

	Does Newbold give any details about the now missing pages in his book?

http://www.kessingerpub.com/searchresults_orderthebook.lasso?Author=Newbold,
%20William%20Romaine&Submit=Query#1


	John.





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Subject: Re: VMs: Search for missing folios, quires et al.


Ken W wrote:
> I know this might seem shockingly obvious, but has anyone ever done any
> detective work and attempted to find the missing folios?  I know it is a
> long shot in the dark, but  the potential benefit could be tremendous.
> I'm not an expert in this sort of research, so I don't know if it is
> common for library collections to catalog or collect fragments of
> manuscripts.  Is it possible that a folio or two, or an entire quire is
> buried in a library somewhere?  Italy, perhaps?  Prague?

I think it's almost certain that at least six of the missing fourteen
leaves are somewhere in private hands, because those six went missing
in the 20th century, between the time Newbold studied it and the time
Kraus wrote his catalogue description.
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	Jim Gillogly
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