Re: VMs: VMS: OOPS!

[Rene Zandbergen <r_zandbergen@xxxxxxxxx>]

--- Nick Pelling <nickpelling@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Apart from the bifolios lost circa 1930, there is a
> definite kind of logic 
> to the other missing pages. Personally, I'm more
> than comfortable with the 
> image conjured up of Baresch pruning different types
> of pages (one herbal, 
> one zodiacal, etc) from the VMs to send through to
> Kircher. It would just 
> be nice if those other pages were suddenly (almost
> magically!) to turn up 
> folded into an otherwise forgotten corner of
> Kircheriana. :-)

My thoughts almost exactly. The 'almost' is that
it could also have been Marci doing the opposite:
_keeping_ a few pages before he sent the book to
Kircher, for himself or some curious friends.

By the way, some 'forgotten corners' of Kircheriana
are definitely still there. Apart from the Archives
of the PUG (where all the Mondragone leftovers
were brought) there is the 'fondo gesuitico'
in the library of Vittorio Emanuele II in the
Castro Pretorio in Rome, where the things not
saved by Beckx ended up. You could add these to
your list of places to look, but they are 
definitly not so easily accessible. 

Cheers, Rene


		
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