Re: VMs: Colored paints, touch-ups, and the michiton text

[Nick Pelling <incoming@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi everyone,

At 11:00 05/07/2004 -0700, Dana Scott wrote:
> From "A Preliminary Sketch of the History of the Roger Bacon Cipher
> Manuscript" by Wilfrid M. Voynich (Transactions of the College of Physicians
> of Philadelphia, pp.421-422, read April 20, 1921) we learn the following:
>
>    "When I brought this manuscript to America the margins of the first page
> had the appearance of being blank, but an accident to a photostatic
> reproduction of this page revealed the fact that an underexposure of the
> plate brings out a faded autograph in the lower margin. Chemicals were
> applied to the margins and the autograph, Jacobus de Tepenecz, became
> visible, with some illegible figures below it." (Plate 2.--Voynich., p.421)

What is interesting here is that a photostatic reproduction was done 
*before* the application of chemicals to the margins - so, there is a fair 
chance that a careful search through the many images of f1r held by the 
Beinecke may turn up at least one that was taken before any physical 
monkeying was done with the VMs. Something to think about next time you're 
in New Haven! :-)

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


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