My Villa Mondragone slides are getting ever closer to finished, which is just as well because the 2012 Voynich Manuscript conference is now a scant seven days away (*gasp*). Meanwhile here in Cipher Mysteries Towers, it should be no surprise that the caffeinated clatter of jittery journalists tap-tapping away at the walls for interesting angles on everyone’s favourite mysterious manuscript is starting to build up to a bit of a din, ahh bless.
So… here’s my latest version (#007) of Between Vellum and Prague. If you’ll be at Frascati (and I sincerely hope a good few of you will be!), please feel free to read it beforehand, I really don’t mind – in fact, I far prefer excruciatingly well-informed hecklers. 😉
However, the even bigger big news of the day is that the first screening date for the Voynich documentary I was filmed for in Venice and Milan last summer has just been announced: 9pm 22nd May 2012 on the National Geographic channel here in the UK, and then several times a day all the way through to the 27th May 2012. It’s part of a series called “Ancient X-Files”: my Voynich section time-shares an episode with a section on locating the Biblical cities of Sodom & Gomorrah.
It was a terrific lot of fun making it (despite the Venetian heatwave), as well as a truly amazing experience going to places as part of a full-on documentary film crew – doors that would stay resolutely shut to A. N. Other solo historian magically eased themselves wide, wide open. This meant that I got to see a whole load of wonderful, new surprising things – in fact, everywhere we went, everything we saw & everyone we met all far surpassed my expectations. So even if the Nat Geo documentary stands essentially zero chance of convincing you to drop your own Voynich theory for a picosecond 🙂 , I hope you’ll come along for the ride, a brief busman’s holiday to Quattrocento Italy with my Antonio Averlino / Filarete theory!
Come on, someone you know is bound to be a Nat Geo subscriber, surely? Go on, ask them! 🙂
Anyway, that’s all for the moment, but rest assured I’ll be able to post much more once it airs…
My only suggestion is that you add a short bibliography. Including, of course, your own book. 😀
Captioning, Nick. Will NatGeo be providing captioning? I recently watched your short clip on “Folding”. I was mesmerized by the folding process, but had no idea of its relevance to “what”. I only caught momentary glimpses of your face, “stiff upper lip” and all.
It only dawned on me this morning that the folding demonstration probably had to do with how the folios (including the bi and tri) were prepared for binding.
It looks like a pretty adventurous summer for you. Most of all, have FUN!
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hahaha you voynich without me ?
not do, you go for it, me ready yo confirm…
ok, no way