Re: VMs: Hi from another newbie

[Dennis <tsalagi@xxxxxxxx>]

	Welcome, Paul!

> a)  Where's the best place I download a good copy of the manuscript? 

http://www.geocities.com/ctesibos/voynich/hi-quality-vms-images.html

	The mirror site doesn't work.  You have to use the Beinecke 
site.  It has the whole thing.  You can use the text list on 
the site above with a download manager to easily download 
the whole thing.  The text list needs to be updated but it 
should get you most of it.

> And where can I download the EVA font?  

http://www.geocities.com/ctesibos/francais/voynich/outils.htm
"La Police Voynich"

> b)  The plumbing in the manuscript's biological section is popularly
> believed to represent bodily organs and vessels, right? 

	No.  No one knows what it is.  A few of the biological 
pages do look like internal organs but the rest of them 
don't.  We really don't know what we are looking at.  In a 
lot of the drawings it could just be water.

>  And the botanical section has a
> picture of what looks like a red capsicum, but the fruit is green, not
> red. 

	That it is capsicum was just Brumbaugh's idea and no one 
believes it anymore.

> So... How many of the usual suspects for writing the manuscript
> (Bacon, Dee, Kelley, etc.) were colour-blind? 

	No one in a long time has believed that Bacon had anything 
to do with the VMs.  And now we don't believe that Dee and 
Kelly had anything to do with it either.

	A lot of what one hears about the VMs is from old ideas 
that are now discredited.   It just remains as a sort of 
folklore, unfortunately.  :-)

	The recommendations to Smári McCarthy are good.

Dennis


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