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Re: VMs: VMS Critical Discovery - Author Identified?
Hi everyone (especially Rob and Nick: :-) ),
Just reconsidered Vermont MS.2:
Keeping it short, Rob congratulations again, and Nick, your idea of collecting strong VMSness feelings seems very attractive to me.
The above MS.2 is certainly one of my few ones, and it could be worth remembering such selected "objects". Perhaps references and if possible links should be added.
I know that on some sites most of the selection is already visible, for instance by Rene's,
but perhaps an attempt of a collective summ-up then hosted by someone would happen to be fruitful.
Jean
Nick Pelling <nickpelling@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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 (a!
s 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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