12/28/2023 0 Comments Yale rare books voynichWhen the late semiotician and novelist Umberto Eco visited Yale in 2013, MS 408 was the only manuscript he asked to see, notes Clemens. It is officially named the Cipher Manuscript by Yale, and is classified under the shelf-mark Beinecke MS 408 ( Cipher Manuscript) however its more popular name refers to the. Nestled in the heart of Yale University’s campus in New Haven, Connecticut, this iconic landmark holds a treasure trove of knowledge and cultural artifacts that are truly mind-blowing. Held at Yale University’s Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library since 1969, the Voynich Manuscript (VM) remains one of the world’s most mysterious texts. He acquired the Cipher manuscript, now known as the Voynich manuscript, in 1912. Voynich (1865-1930) was an antiquarian and rare book dealer. Today, it attracts 16% of traffic to the Beinecke digital library, and for close to half of all traffic to the zoom viewer that allows examination of individual pages of manuscripts. The Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library is not your ordinary library. Associated material: Cipher manuscript (Voynich manuscript) (Beinecke MS 408), Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. In 1961, the manuscript was purchased by book dealer Hans Kraus, who presented it to Yale the university put it online in 2004 (see go./2dlns1c). Up to his death in 1930, Voynich marketed it as the work of thirteenth-century English scientist and friar Roger Bacon - a theory discredited only by the radiocarbon dating. In 1912, under condition of absolute secrecy, Voynich bought the manuscript from a Jesuit archive in Italy that he never identified, but that was selling part of its collection to the Vatican Library. “So the Voynich Manuscript could be one of the books Widemann got his hands on and sold to the emperor, because, for sure, it would have already looked valuable back then to a collector of weird and precious things like emperor Rudolf.The manuscript is named after Wilfrid Voynich, a Polish-born revolutionary who escaped Siberian exile to become a dealer in rare books and manuscripts in London and then New York City. Newly found archival material has revealed that Rauwolf owned a small collection of books, Guzy adds. “I assume that he probably inherited some books from him (it also seems that both families were somehow related).” “ lived in the Augsburg house of the well known botanist Dr Leonard Rauwolf, and he started selling books to the emperor immediately after the death of Rauwolf and his widow, who both had no children,” Guzy says. ![]() The 600 gold coins mentioned in Marci’s letter was also an extremely expensive price for a single book, so it would make sense for the Voynich Manuscript to have been sold as part of a small collection.īut if Widemann was the manuscript’s owner before Rudolf, how did it come into his possession? One intriguing option stands out. Since 1969, it has been held in Yale Universitys Beinecke Rare. “Even if a deal was made with ducats or thaler, florins were usually used for the final transaction.”Ī spread from the Voynich Manuscript Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut The manuscript is named after Wilfrid Voynich, a Polish book dealer who purchased it in 1912. “Almost all of the emperor’s money transactions were made in guilders (florin), usually Rhenisch guilders, with only very few in thaler or ducats so I believe that the information in the letter was just meant to be ‘gold coins,’ which both florin and ducats are,” Guzy says. Paul Tobin and Ig Guara’s ‘Marvel Adventures: Black Widow and The Avengers, 18,’ featuring the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library and Beinecke MS 408 (the Voynich Manuscript. ![]() A further record refers to the collection as “remarkable/rare books” and that they were transported in a small barrel, Guzy writes in his research paper, published in the proceedings of the first International Conference on the Voynich Manuscript 2022. The records revealed that in 1599, the physician Carl Widemann sold a collection of manuscripts to Rudolf for 500 silver thaler, an amount cited in another record by its equivalent in gold, 600 florin-another type of gold coin. Luckily, out of almost 7,000 journal entries, including 126 book transactions, only one case involved a book sale for 600 gold coins. ![]() The letter from Johann Marcus Marci to Athanasius Kircher, found with the Voynich Manuscript Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
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