Re: VMs: Q. is there a to-do list?

[Nick Pelling <nickpelling@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dear Ross,

At 19:42 11/09/2004 -0400, Ross Bender wrote:
> As I am new to this list, I'm not sure what y'all have on Newbold. His
>  THE CIPHER OF ROGER BACON, edited by Roland Grubb Kent...

That's about all anyone has on Newbold, really. AFAIK there isn't a digital 
version of the book on the web - but AFAICR there isn't a great deal in the 
book to titillate our modern palettes. :-/

> I've slapped the title page and some samples up at:
> http://rossbender.org/voynich.html

Great, thanks! :-)

> Yes, I will be happy to go to the
> Archives and see what's there. However, it may be a few weeks until I
> have time to do so.

No problem - you seem to be by far the best-placed person to do it. :-)

>  BTW Newbold persuaded Morton Easton to offer the first course in
>  Sanskrit at Penn. Nowadays Stephen Tinney, associate curator of the
>  Babylonian section at the University Museum, is heading the Sumerian
>  Dictionary Project.

Curiously enough (linking in with the Myers-Briggs enneagram from Boje I 
flagged in a previous email), I actually emailed Steve Tinney a couple of 
years back, asking him whether there was any evidence that the enneagram 
was Sumerian (as its fans claim), but got no reply. However, at a 
conference I later attended, I sat next to someone who claimed to be the 
foremost world experts on both Gurdjieff and the enneagram: she told me 
that it was, without any doubt, an entirely modern invention. Just a 
sidenote! :-)

Cheers, .....Nick Pelling..... 


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