Thanks for dropping by!

Yes, I took a good close look at the Clusius Correspondence Project, and corresponded (though very briefly) with Florike Egmond: I blogged about it here a few weeks ago.

On balance, I would think it slightly more likely that the VMs took the Rondelet-L’Obel high road than the Rondelet-Clusius low road: that’s not to say I yet believe either is true, but rather that these are good working hypotheses for working out which infinitesimal fraction of the cornucopia of historical archives it would be worth investing any time investigating.

Still, those who suspect/believe (as Wilfrid Voynich himself most notably did) that Dee-Kelly provided the manuscript’s transport to Prague can take some solace in the fact that L’Obel spent a lot of time in England.

Cheers, ….Nick Pelling….

Have you looked at the work of botanist Charles de l’Écluse, (L’Escluse, or Carolus Clusius) (Arras, February 19, 1526 – Leiden April 4, 1609), in connection to the herbal sections? He with Rondelet at Montpellier, and was in 1573 he appointed prefect of the imperial medical garden in Vienna by Maximilian II — then discharged right after the accession of Rudolf, winding up in Frankfort. Of course, since he didn’t wind up in Prague but was in places more connected to Dee or Bruno, he only helps much if you leave open the possibility of that sort of connection.

Terri