VMs: Re: Warburg photos, and cat-and-mouse games...

["DANA SCOTT" <dscott520@xxxxxxx>]

More Cat and Mouse:

http://www.trincoll.edu/~tjoseph/sessa.htm
http://humanities.uchicago.edu/events/Dante/images/tp1578ses/1578_ses.inf1.txt.200dpi.jpeg
http://humanities.uchicago.edu/events/Dante/images/tp1578ses/1578_ses.col.200dpi.jpeg

http://www.vgesa.com/vgeinc24i.html

http://web2.uflib.ufl.edu/spec/rarebook/devices/sessa1534bx.htm
http://web2.uflib.ufl.edu/spec/rarebook/devices/sessa1534b.htm



Regards,
Dana Scott


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Nick Pelling" <nickpelling@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <vms-list@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, July 30, 2004 7:04 AM
Subject: VMs: Warburg photos, and cat-and-mouse games...


> Hi everyone,
>
> A couple of things: firstly, the Warburg Institute now has a site with
> digitised scans of early books on astrology, with a description for each
> one by my friend David Juste.
> http://www.warburg-photos.com/orientation/astrology/Bibliotheca.htm
>
> Interestingly (certainly for Jean-Yves Artero and myself, if for no-one
> else), the first book in the set ("Albumasar, Flores") was printed in
> Venice by Johannes Baptista Sessa in 1488 or 1506 ("the date is missing"):
> and has essentially the same cat-and-mouse printers' motif as Wilfrid 
> Voynich.
> http://www.warburg-photos.com/orientation/fah/florespr.pdf
>
> I'll do a bit more digging & update my page on this motif later. :-)
>
> Cheers, ....Nick Pelling....
>
>
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