Dear all,
Further with Polaria ?for the records, I managed to read by W.H. Müller : Lovecraft, Schatzmeister des Vebotenen, Edition Aha , Deutschland, 1993. ISBN is 3 ?89423-113-0.
The whole book is of course devoted to the links between HPL's life and works and esotericism. I am here concentrating on VMS aspects.
Keeping it short, the author states that Dee, in Rudolph?s court, had the opportunity to read many manuscripts and books. Inter alia, was VMS. The author is aware of the Tepenecz/Marci/Kircher connection and of Voynich discovery in Italy (1912), as well as the Kraus episode. He even quotes David Kahn?s book and knows too that VMS is now in Yale/Beinecke.
According to Müller, VMS was proposed to Dee for a decipherment. He further raises the question of a possible Spanish origin of VMS, due to the fact that Rudolph spent his earlier life's years in that country and ? he argues ? subsequently brought with him some written works to Prag.
Müller links VMS with the well known Arthur Dee?s mention of a book "full of hieroglyphics" and seems to consider that Dee did not succeed in his attempts for a decipherment. He refers to Thomas Browne and Elias Ashmole. He quotes the Libri Mysteriorum and apparently is defending the opinion that VMS is very much linked to Aldaraia sive Sogya Vocor.
He very clearly writes that " VMS is not Necronomicon ". He thinks that the latter could have the same Spanish origin?Necronomicon of course being an Arabish text.
I am very much aware that this topic was already analyzed by Daniel and Karl :
http://www.necfiles.org/muller.htmMy view is perhaps a bit different, with a direct access to the German text.
Cheers,
Jean