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The claimed Voynich page
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RE: The claimed Voynich page
oshfdk > 1 hour ago
(2 hours ago)eggyk Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.
(7 hours ago)Bernd Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.As mentioned, the copy is smaller (how much in percent?) than the original.
Although I am relatively confident that I measured/calculated the sizes with the given measurements + pixel counts roughly correct, it would put my mind at ease if someone else were to re-check to make sure I haven't made any obvious mistakes.
Now that Fabrizio has given the dimensions of the copy parchment, it's much more possible.
Matching the height of the cover of the Voynich MS to 235 mm, I get that the text in the Voynich MS is roughly 9% larger.
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RE: The claimed Voynich page
Fabrizio Salani > 1 hour ago
(3 hours ago)MarcoP Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.
Thank you, I didn't know it was a fake... too bad, I was hoping it could be helpful. I never stop learning!(4 hours ago)Fabrizio Salani Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.This document was put up for auction, but I only learned about it years later. I'm posting it in the hope that someone can provide me with information, as I haven't found anything online. It would be interesting to know its content. I think it could be of great importance for my parchment, too.
I tried to contact the auction house in 2019 to have more information about, but never received a response (the auction was in June 2013)
"Ad dominum Marcum Marci Cronolandensem Epistula de manuscripto..." was a fake made as a joke and/or to promote a business. Massimo Gatta takes responsibility for it in You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. (p.168, footnote 38):
Quote:Quale cultore degli pseudobiblia anni fa creai, con l’amicale collaborazione di Fabio Massimo Bertolo, direttore allora della casa d’aste Minerva Auctions di Roma, un ‘falso’ storico in forma di opuscolo attribuito a Kircher, nel quale era presente una lettera da lui inviata appunto a Marcus Marci, nella quale gli indicava le proprie considerazioni in merito al codice ricevuto, compresa una sua teoria ermeneutica.
È noto, al contrario, che il celebre gesuita non rispose mai alle richieste che gli giunsero da Praga in merito al codice. Il nostro ‘falso’ aveva il chilometrico titolo Ad dominum Marcus Marci Cronolandensem Epistula de manuscripto notis arcanis exarato ab eodem misso, in qua secreta illius scriptionis usque ad praenses tempus inviolata omnibusque investigationibus elapsa aperire atque in lucem proferre conatus est Athanasius Kircher, Roma, Typis S. Congr. de propag. Fide, 1669. Minerva Auctions 2013; Gatta 2008; Gatta 2009; Gatta 2010; Gatta 2013;
Gatta 2015.
Machine Translation:
As a devotee of pseudobiblia, some years ago I created, with the friendly collaboration of Fabio Massimo Bertolo, director at the time of the auction house Minerva Auctions in Rome, a historical 'forgery' in the form of a pamphlet attributed to Kircher, in which there was a letter supposedly sent by him to Marcus Marci, in which he set out his own thoughts regarding the manuscript he had received, including his hermeneutic theory concerning it.
It is well known, on the contrary, that the celebrated Jesuit never replied to the requests that reached him from Prague regarding the manuscript. Our 'forgery' bore the kilometrically long title Ad dominum Marcus Marci Cronolandensem Epistula de manuscripto notis arcanis exarato ab eodem misso, in qua secreta illius scriptionis usque ad praesens tempus inviolata omnibusque investigationibus elapsa aperire atque in lucem proferre conatus est Athanasius Kircher, Rome, Typis S. Congr. de propag. Fide, 1669.
Minerva Auctions 2013; Gatta 2008; Gatta 2009; Gatta 2010; Gatta 2013; Gatta 2015."
I remember the episode, because when it was announced I believed it was authentic.... I think we discussed this on the forum, but I cannot find the old posts at the moment.