VMs: Re: Cat-and-mouse (continued)...

["DANA SCOTT" <dscott520@xxxxxxx>]

Very nice Nick. Thank you for putting this together. Catalogue No. 24 does 
not have the Sessa printer's device on the cover; however, there are some 
possible clues to consider. What does appear on the cover is the following:

Telegraphic and Cable Address: "Sessa, London."
Code: "Unicode."  Telephone: No. 13,503, Central.

On the inside of the cover Voynich announces his acquisition of Libreria 
Franceschini, Palazzo Borghese, in Florence.

A section on "Astronomy and Astrology." begins on page 1, with the following 
entry under this section on page 2:

7 RINGELBERGH (Joachimus Fortius), of Antwerp (1499-1536).
    Institutiones Astronomicae ternis libris contentae.  Quorum
    primus spherae ac mundi naturam declarat: secundus orbium :
    tertius circulorum. Cum annotationibus, & indice. 8vo, Ital.
    types, with Hebrew and Greek pass., 48 II., (8) II., index, wood-
    cut publisher's devices (cat and mouse) on title and at end, fine
    woodcut border to the 4th leaf, woodcut hist. inits., woodcut
    diagram, good copy, bds., LI IS
                  Io. Ant. de Sabio, for Melchior Sessa, Venice, 1535

 Rare Edition. Unknown to Brunet, Deschamps, Graesse, and Ebert.
   Lancaster, I, 2407. No copy of this edit. in the B.M., which
   has only that of Bas, 1528.


[note: the LI IS refers to 1 Pound 1 Shilling]

Regards,
Dana Scott


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Nick Pelling" <nickpelling@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Monday, August 02, 2004 7:13 AM
Subject: VMs: Cat-and-mouse (continued)...


> Hi everyone,
>
> Updated page on WMV's cat-and-mouse motif (as promised):-
> http://www.nickpelling.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/voynich/alchabitius.html
>
> All comments and further suggestions very welcome! :-)
>
> Cheers, .....Nick Pelling.....
>
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