Re: VMs: Brumbaugh / 1972 / Milan / numbers...?

[Nick Pelling <nickpelling@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi John,

> On Wed, 20 Oct 2004, Nick Pelling wrote:
> > However, their page 129 might have one thing worth pursuing: that
> > "Brumbaugh's first and most important breakthrough was in the spring of
> > 1972, when he noticed that some of the Voynichese symbols were similar to
> > others [...] on the back of another old manuscript" in Milan, where they
> > represented numbers in an astrological diagram. Does anyone know what the
> > reference for that other MS is?

At 17:56 20/10/2004 -0600, John E Koontz replied:
> Worth pursuing, but a fair number of Voynichese characters look like
> something *somewhere*, often numerals or abbreviatory notae.  Plausible,
> but not very helpful explanations would be that there are only so many
> simple shapes one can easily make with a quill, or, again, that certain
> canonical shapes appeal to human minds.

Perhaps it would be more pragmatic to retain an open mind as to the 
relevance of this other MS? Until such time as we can see ourselves what 
Brumbaugh was so inspired by in 1972, the jury should remain out, surely?

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


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