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

["DANA SCOTT" <dscott520@xxxxxxx>]

The following is the folio summarization found in "The Cipher of Roger 
Bacon" by William Romaine Newbold, edited by Roland Grubb Kent (originally 
published by University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, Humphrey 
Milford: Oxford University Press, London, 1928, reprinted by Sacred Science 
Library www.sacredscience.com, 2002, p.45).

                            Leaves  Text  Drawings   Missing    Total
Part I. Botanical,            65    pp.5   pp.125  (f.12) pp.2  pp.132
        ff. 1-11, 13-66

Part II. Astronomical,         7
      ff. 67-73, of which
        ff. 67, 70
          (each = pp. 4) =  8
        ff. 68, 72
          (each = pp. 6) = 12
      ff. 69, 71, 73
          (each = pp. 2) =  6  ..      0   PP. 26  (f.74) pp.2  pp. 18
                           --
                       PP. 26

Part III. Biological,          12
      ff. 75-86 of which
        ff. 75-84
          (each = pp. 2) = 10
        ff. 85-86
          (large sheet)  = 12
                           --
                       pp. 32  ..  pp. 4   pp. 28            0  pp. 32

Part IV. Pharmaceutical,       12
     ff. 87-90, 93-96, 99-101
  of which
      87, 88, 93, 94, 96, 100
         (each =  pp. 2) = 14
      89, 90, 95, 101, 101
         (each =  pp. 4) = 20                     (ff.91,92,97
                      pp. 34   ..      0   pp. 34  98) = pp. 8  pp. 42

Part V. Text only,             12   pp.24       0 (ff. 109,110) pp. 18
     ff. 103-108, 111-116                              = pp. 4
                              ----------------------------------------
                              108   pp.33  pp.213 (ff.8) pp.16  pp.161

Regards,
Dana Scott


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gabriel Landini" <G.Landini@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <vms-list@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, June 27, 2004 10:07 AM
Subject: Re: VMs: Search for missing folios, quires et al.


> On Sunday 27 June 2004 16:28, Nick Pelling wrote:
> > Is Newbold's book out of copyright yet? If it is, it would be a good 
> > thing
> > for a willing listmember to scan (there's plenty of hosting webspace out
> > there if you just ask for it).
>
> Hmm... good idea. (I haven't read the book, btw)
>
> > Similarly, we might find items of relevance to this "missing leaves" 
> > issue
> > in the Voynich papers for the critical 1919-1931 period. I don't know if
> > the Grolier Club would be interested in allowing scans of Box 6 to be 
> > made
> > - has anyone asked them?
> >          http://www.grolierclub.org/LibraryAMC.VoynichPapers.htm
>
> I have forgotten completely about this. Has anybody seen the contents or 
> been
> in contact with this library?
>
> Cheers,
> Gabriel
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