Re: VMs: VMS Critical Discovery - Author Identified?

[Nick Pelling <nickpelling@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi everyone,

As a find, Rob Hicks' Bodleian MS 66 is interesting, but IMO not really in 
a blood-freezing way. Typically for commonplaces, it's an (essentially) 
unstructured collection of notes and doodles, amassed over time - whereas 
the VMs has a structure to its content which even misbinding has not been 
able to destroy. BTW, is there any cipher (as opposed to cipher-like) 
content to MS 66?

FWIW, some of the things that have provoked strong feelings of VMs-ness in 
me are:-
* The Gasparinus de Bripio Ms at the British Library
* The Massajo circular map of Milan
* The Vat. Gr. 1291 Helios miniature (of course)
* The two "qo" Tranchedino ciphers
* A photo of St Mark's Basilica in Venice (taken from the Campanile)
* The magic circle on f105v of Clm 849 (in Kieckhefer's "Forbidden Rites", 
p.376)
* The Novara eagle (as in the whole "cryptoheraldry" thing on f46v)
* A Milanese fresco I found out about recently - but more on that another 
day. :-)

MS 66 isn't on my list just yet... but you "never say 'never' in showbiz" 
(and in art history). :-)

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


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