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

[Nick Pelling <incoming@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi everyone,

At 01:12 28/06/2004 -0700, Rene Zandbergen wrote:
> So, here we have it. Newbold lists ff. 59-64 as
> NOT missing. Even more, he lists 5 pages as
> text-only, so apart from f1r, f58r, f58v and f66r
> we know that one of them was text-only.
> He may even have considered f66r as 'having a
> drawing', in which case 2 of the now missing
> pages would be text-only.
>
> I'm convinced now.

I'm now convinced as well, though Jim Reeds (as always) covered the basic 
ground here first:-
        http://www.voynich.net/reeds/docs/checklist.txt (1997)

ISTM that there are two obvious routes to follow this up:-
(1) Track down where those two bifolios went (look at WMV correspondence 
1919-1931, ask the estates of various crypto people who would have been 
good candidates, etc).

IIRC, WMV kept on returning to the VMs all through his lifetime, so these 
two bifolios may simply be held by the Grolier Club, tucked away inside 
another piece of paper. :-)

(2) Track down any early photographs or rotographs of the VMs (the closer 
to 1919 the better). The  bifolios were missing by the time of the 1931 
rotographs (as transcribed by Peterson).

My guess is that Newbold had photographs - or perhaps Newbold's papers were 
held by Roland Grubb Kent (Newbold's friend [also from Pennsylvania], who 
wrote up Newbold's posthumous notes into the 1928 book). I've already 
emailed the UPenn library to ask them about this, so no duplicate requests, 
please! BTW, we have a 1945 address for RGK:-
        http://www.ehabitat.demon.co.uk/vms/letter-020.html

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


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