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

["John Grove" <John@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

	Oops... Does this mean that all those characters down the right
side of the page weren't there when he bought the manuscript?

 "When I brought this manuscript to America the margins of the first page
had the appearance of being blank,"

	John.


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


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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