VMs: Individual pages from Baresch - foliation and quiration

[Rene Zandbergen <r_zandbergen@xxxxxxxxx>]

Dear all,

let me both follow up to my own e-mail and do some
relatively wild speculation all in one go.

> Nick wrote:
> 
> > 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. :-)

The evidence is staring us in the face :-)

Marci sent a letter to Kircher in 1640 with the
question whether Kircher could interpret the attached
'schaedata' (which could mean drawings).
What if these were pages of the MS? Kircher would
have kept them, and whoever organised his 
correspondence, could have later placed them back
together with the VMs. And what do we see?
There is evidence of the VMs being rebound between
1700 and 1900 (source: Yale catalogue entry).
There are odd stubs near f73 and near f94/95.

Quite possibly, the bits Baresch sent were sewn
back into the MS in the 18th C.
Speculating even further, there are a few pages
which have small 'a' 'b' 'c' in the corner, which
are written in pencil, much like used in the
index of Kircher's correspondence. This could be
further indication that these pages may have been
detached from the MS at some time during its stay
with the Jesuits after Kircher.

Cheers, Rene


	
		
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