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Re: VMs: Reasearching the VMs at Beinecke

I looked for most of this 'hidden' text and will pass it on to the list when I get back to my notes. It was a primary concern of mine to copy as much of the hidden text as possible. In some cases where the text has just faded away, there is just nothing my poor old human eyes could detect. Painted over text in the jars I was able to copy, except for the one folio where was used as an outer cover packet fold over where the paint and text is badly cracked. The Beinecke librarian literaly came over to me and to retrieve the VMs from my clutches during closing time (4:45p.m.) when I was copying down the jar text. I would have needed to time to closely try and figure out the cracked text. But yes, I did try to capture the badly faded and hidden in the gutter text. One thought was that this fading and gutter fold damage occured a long time ago when the folded packets were used for seemingly what they were designed to be used for. One thing about the initial layout of certain folios is that I believe that the folio page text and drawing were in some cases meant to be used side by side where now in its present binding the purpose utility of this side by side text and drawings is now deemphasized. For example, f57v and 66r were layed out side by side on the same vellum. My impression is that this the intent of the original scibe (black scribe-3) and that these two folios work together. This is a significant revelation for me, since I can now see that the notes along the border of 66r may indeed refer to what is seen in 57v. What I want to do now is lay it all out as it was originally written (without binding or folds) to see if this makes sense and produces new revelations. More work, but probably informative.



Regards,
Dana




From: "J HALEY" <j.haley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: Re: VMs: Reasearching the VMs at Beinecke
Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2005 01:42:24 +0100

Hi

Stupid email sent before I could type!

There has been discussion about writing obscured by paint.
I do not off hand recall the folios involved but it would be useful
to examine these to determine whether or not they are simply
artifacts of the imaging process. If anyone has a list of these
items it may be an idea to pass it on to Dana.

Jeff

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From: "Florin" <ifthink@xxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: 26 August 2005 20:26
Subject: Re: VMs: Reasearching the VMs at Beinecke


> Hi Dana,
>
> Could you get a higher-resolution image for the "july" label ?
> What I/we have is a very small, illegible, bw image.
>
> Thanks,
> Florin
>
> On 8/26/05, DANA SCOTT <dscott520@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Hello All,
> >
> > I am currently researching the VMs and accompanying documents at the
> > Beinecke Library.  It is a wonderful experience to be able to examine
the
> > original incunabula.  If anyone has a burning need for me to examine a
> > particular item, please do not hesitate to ask.  I will be here next
week as
> > well.
> >
> >
> > Kind Regards,
> > Dana Scott
> >
> >
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