7.0177 Rs: Communication S/W (2); Voynich MS (3/79)
Elaine Brennan (EDITORS@BROWNVM.BITNET)
Fri, 10 Sep 1993 16:03:49 EDT
Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 7, No. 0177. Friday, 10 Sep 1993.
(1) Date: Thu, 9 Sep 93 22:36 EDT (16 lines)
From: <GMP@PSUVM>
Subject: Re: 7.0171 Qs: Voynich Ms; Communication s/w
(2) Date: Fri, 10 Sep 93 07:47:12 +0200 (56 lines)
From: ath@linkoping.trab.se
Subject: Re: 7.0171 Qs: Voynich Ms; Communication s/w
(3) Date: Fri, 10 Sep 93 8:07 BST (7 lines)
From: POT@LEICESTER.AC.UK
Subject: RE: 7.0171 Qs: Voynich Ms; Communication s/w
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Date: Thu, 9 Sep 93 22:36 EDT
From: <GMP@PSUVM>
Subject: Re: 7.0171 Qs: Voynich Ms; Communication s/w
Re: Mr. Heberlein's request for a communications package, I recommend
Procomm Plus. It is expensive, but extremely versatile and one of the
few packages that works with databases like Medline, etc.
GMP@PSUVM.PSU.EDU
Gerald M. Phillips (Professor Emeritus), Speech Communication
Trade and Applied Books Editor, Hampton Press
Editor, IPCT: An Electronic Journal for the 21st Century
ISSN 1064-4326. Send submissions to GMP3 at PSUVM.PSU.EDU
Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802
Manuscripts are being accepted for the October, 1993 issue
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Date: Fri, 10 Sep 93 07:47:12 +0200
From: ath@linkoping.trab.se
Subject: Re: 7.0171 Qs: Voynich Ms; Communication s/w (2/30)
Stan Kulikowski ii <STANKULI@UWF> asks:
> in a recent post i mentioned an undeciphered document called 'the voynich
>manuscript'. i have heard this appears to be a 16th century document about
>300 pages long, written in an unknown script. it also has illustrations in
>the manner of a natural history. someone responded that this manuscript is
>an academic myth.
As far as I understand it exists: it is said to be in the Beinecke
Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University.
There's a lot of information on it in the Rec.puzzles Usenet newsgroup
archives.
Here are some of the references quoted there:
TITLE Thirty-five manuscripts : including the St. Blasien psalter, the
Llangattock hours, the Gotha missal, the Roger Bacon (Voynich)
cipher ms.
Catalogue ; 100
35 manuscripts.
CITATION New York, N.Y. : H.P. Kraus, [1962] 86 p., lxvii p. of plates, [1]
leaf of plates : ill. (some col.), facsims. ; 36 cm.
NOTES "30 years, 1932-1962" ([28] p.) in pocket. Includes indexes.
SUBJECT Manuscripts Catalogs.
Illumination of books and manuscripts Catalogs.
AUTHOR Brumbaugh, Robert Sherrick, 1918-
TITLE The most mysterious manuscript : the Voynich "Roger Bacon" cipher
manuscript / edited by Robert S. Brumbaugh.
CITATION Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, c1978. xii, 175 p.
: ill. ; 22 cm.
SUBJECT Bacon, Roger, 1214?-1294.
Ciphers.
AUTHOR D'Imperio, M. E.
TITLE The Voynich manuscript : an elegant enigma / M. E. D'Imperio.
CITATION Fort George E. Mead, Md. : National Security Agency/Central Security
Service, 1978. ix, 140 p. : ill. ; 27 cm.
NOTES Includes index. Bibliography: p. 124-131.
SUBJECT Voynich manuscript. [NOTE: see alternate publisher below!]
There's also some information in David Kahn's book The Codebreakers
@book{dImperio78,
author = "D'Imperio, M E",
title = "The Voynich manuscript: An Elegant Enigma",
publisher= "Aegean Park Press",
year = 1978}
Anders Thulin ath@linkoping.trab.se 013-23 55 32
Telia Research AB, Teknikringen 2B, S-583 30 Linkoping, Sweden
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Date: Fri, 10 Sep 93 8:07 BST
From: POT@LEICESTER.AC.UK
Subject: RE: 7.0171 Qs: Voynich Ms; Communication s/w (2/30)
Re- the enquiry by Fritz Heberlein in Bavaria, in Leicester we use emutec
and kermit with an ethernet prom to connect PCs into our irix (version
of Unix) network service.