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		<title>Well, here&#8217;s where the answer may be found&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2010/12/17/well-heres-where-the-answer-may-be-found</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Dec 2010 22:09:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Antonio Averlino]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[British Library]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Byzantine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marcello Simonetta]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Milan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rene Zandbergen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Voynich Manuscript]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[For a while, I&#8217;ve had an itch (a Voyn-itch, if you prefer) I couldn&#8217;t work out how to scratch. You see&#8230; about six years ago, I found an old history book digitized on archive.org (if I remember correctly): it related how Francesco Sforza assembled an ongoing ad hoc council of representatives of various city-states surrounding Milan, told [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[For a while, I&#8217;ve had an itch (a Voyn-itch, if you prefer) I couldn&#8217;t work out how to scratch.
You see&#8230; about six years ago, I found an old history book digitized on archive.org (if I remember correctly): it related how Francesco Sforza assembled an ongoing ad hoc council of representatives of various city-states surrounding Milan, told them [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>&#8220;Renaissance Dress in Italy : 1400-1500&#8243;&#8230;?</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2010/01/01/renaissance-dress-in-italy-1400-1500</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2010/01/01/renaissance-dress-in-italy-1400-1500#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jan 2010 18:01:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[British Library]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Voynich Manuscript]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Warburg Institute]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jacqueline Herald]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[While searching for things to do with the humanist minuscule hand, I stumbled across a reference in a short 2002 paper by Jessica Wilbur to an oversized 1981 hardback by Jacqueline Herald called &#8220;Renaissance Dress in Italy : 1400-1500&#8220;. Now, I thought, that sounds like a book I&#8217;d really like to buy: only to find out [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[While searching for things to do with the humanist minuscule hand, I stumbled across a reference in a short 2002 paper by Jessica Wilbur to an oversized 1981 hardback by Jacqueline Herald called &#8220;Renaissance Dress in Italy : 1400-1500&#8220;. Now, I thought, that sounds like a book I&#8217;d really like to buy: only to find out [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Unusual quire numbers, revisited&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2009/10/07/unusual-quire-numbers-revisited</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2009/10/07/unusual-quire-numbers-revisited#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 14:01:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[British Library]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marginalia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tony Gaffney]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Voynich Manuscript]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A fascinating email just arrived at Cipher Mansions from Tony Gaffney, our virtual cryptologer-in-residence at the British Library. While looking at BL Add. MS 39660 recently, he noticed a set of dates for ten popes written in an unusual mixture of Roman numbers and Arabic numerals (&#8220;an9 pm9&#8221; = &#8220;annus primus&#8220;, and &#8220;ufq3&#8221; = &#8220;usque&#8220;):- That is:- cclxxxij [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[A fascinating email just arrived at Cipher Mansions from Tony Gaffney, our virtual cryptologer-in-residence at the British Library. While looking at BL Add. MS 39660 recently, he noticed a set of dates for ten popes written in an unusual mixture of Roman numbers and Arabic numerals (&#8220;an9 pm9&#8221; = &#8220;annus primus&#8220;, and &#8220;ufq3&#8221; = &#8220;usque&#8220;):-

That is:-

cclxxxij
m cclxxxiiij
m cc [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Voynich challenges, updated&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2009/06/30/voynich-challenges-updated</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2009/06/30/voynich-challenges-updated#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 08:27:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Beinecke Library]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[British Library]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[University of Pennsylvania]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Voynich Manuscript]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wilfrid Voynich]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Every few years, I get around to posting a list of Voynich challenges &#8211; things about the Voynich Manuscript that we would like to know or to find out. Looking back at my 2001 list of Voynich Challenges, I seem to have been flailing around at every codicological nuance going: yes, there are hundreds of interesting [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Every few years, I get around to posting a list of Voynich challenges &#8211; things about the Voynich Manuscript that we would like to know or to find out.
Looking back at my 2001 list of Voynich Challenges, I seem to have been flailing around at every codicological nuance going: yes, there are hundreds of interesting angles [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Early modern palaeography source books&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2009/05/21/early-modern-palaeography-source-books</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2009/05/21/early-modern-palaeography-source-books#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2009 08:03:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[British Library]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marginalia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Voynich Manuscript]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marigold Norbye]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[quire numbers]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[For ages, I&#8217;ve been planning to devote a day at the British Library solely to the task of looking for matches for the Voynich Manuscript&#8217;s unusual quire numbers. There&#8217;s a long description of these quire numbers elsewhere on this website, but the short version is that they are &#8220;abbreviated longhand Latin ordinals in a fifteenth [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[For ages, I&#8217;ve been planning to devote a day at the British Library solely to the task of looking for matches for the Voynich Manuscript&#8217;s unusual quire numbers. There&#8217;s a long description of these quire numbers elsewhere on this website, but the short version is that they are &#8220;abbreviated longhand Latin ordinals in a fifteenth [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Bellaso&#8217;s ciphers, updated&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2009/01/18/bellasos-ciphers-updated</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2009/01/18/bellasos-ciphers-updated#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Jan 2009 22:14:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Augusto Buonafalce]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bellaso Ciphers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[British Library]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tony Gaffney]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A huge thanks to the indefatigable Tony Gaffney who very kindly took the time recently to double-check my transcriptions (some of them derived from Augusto Buonafalce&#8217;s transcriptions) of Bellaso&#8217;s various challenge ciphers against the copies held in the British Library. Of the twelve corrections he suggested, roughly half were typos on my part, while the remainder were places [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[A huge thanks to the indefatigable Tony Gaffney who very kindly took the time recently to double-check my transcriptions (some of them derived from Augusto Buonafalce&#8217;s transcriptions) of Bellaso&#8217;s various challenge ciphers against the copies held in the British Library.
Of the twelve corrections he suggested, roughly half were typos on my part, while the remainder were places where [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>The Scorpio &#8220;Scorpion&#8221; in the VMs&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2008/11/21/the-scorpio-scorpion-in-the-vms</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2008/11/21/the-scorpio-scorpion-in-the-vms#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2008 22:42:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Astrology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[British Library]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gabriel Landini]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Glen Claston]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Voynich Manuscript]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[f73r]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jon Grove]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[While snooping around the (mostly empty) user subsites on Glen Claston&#8217;s Voynich Central, I came across a page by someone called Robin devoted solely to the Scorpio &#8220;Scorpion&#8221; page in the VMs. This has an unusual drawing of a scorpion (or salamander) at the centre, and which I agree demands closer attention&#8230; My first observation is that, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[While snooping around the (mostly empty) user subsites on Glen Claston&#8217;s Voynich Central, I came across a page by someone called Robin devoted solely to the Scorpio &#8220;Scorpion&#8221; page in the VMs. This has an unusual drawing of a scorpion (or salamander) at the centre, and which I agree demands closer attention&#8230;

My first observation is that, while [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Review of &#8220;The Voynich Project&#8221;&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2008/11/10/review-of-the-voynich-project</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2008/11/10/review-of-the-voynich-project#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Nov 2008 11:05:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Alchemy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[British Library]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Novel Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Voynich Manuscript]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[James K. Rollins]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Max McCoy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As a Brit, there&#8217;s a very particular class of American-made sequel that fills my film-watching soul with despair. On planes and slow Sundays, you&#8217;ve doubtless caught a few exemplars yourself: &#8220;Garfield 2&#8243;, &#8220;Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London&#8221;, &#8220;National Lampoon&#8217;s European Vacation&#8221; all spring readily to my mind, but these form but the tip of a particularly yellow-coloured [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[As a Brit, there&#8217;s a very particular class of American-made sequel that fills my film-watching soul with despair. On planes and slow Sundays, you&#8217;ve doubtless caught a few exemplars yourself: &#8220;Garfield 2&#8243;, &#8220;Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London&#8221;, &#8220;National Lampoon&#8217;s European Vacation&#8221; all spring readily to my mind, but these form but the tip of a particularly yellow-coloured [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>BL cipher manuscript update&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2008/10/06/bl-cipher-manuscript-update</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2008/10/06/bl-cipher-manuscript-update#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2008 09:27:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[British Library]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dorabella Cipher]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Subtelty of Witches]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Eric Sams]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[musical times]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve just heard back from the British Library Manuscript department about BL MS Add. 10035, &#8220;The Subtelty of Witches&#8221;, which I mentioned here a few days ago: &#8221;unfortunately it does not begin in English. The whole of the manuscript is written in cipher.&#8221; So: was Eric Sams mistaken? Might the British Library actually have two unreadable books? Well&#8230; after [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve just heard back from the British Library Manuscript department about BL MS Add. 10035, &#8220;The Subtelty of Witches&#8221;, which I mentioned here a few days ago: &#8221;unfortunately it does not begin in English. The whole of the manuscript is written in cipher.&#8221;
So: was Eric Sams mistaken? Might the British Library actually have two unreadable books? Well&#8230; after a [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>British Library cipher manuscript&#8230;?</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2008/10/02/british-library-cipher-manuscript</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2008/10/02/british-library-cipher-manuscript#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Oct 2008 14:51:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[British Library]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Subtelty of Witches]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Voynich Manuscript]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Are you an historian with an enciphered document you want to read? If so, here&#8217;s a link to an article you really ought to have a look at: &#8220;Cryptanalysis and Historical Research&#8221; by Eric Sams, from Archivaria 21 (1985-1986) [it's actually an extended version of two earlier articles he wrote for the TLS in 1977 [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Are you an historian with an enciphered document you want to read? If so, here&#8217;s a link to an article you really ought to have a look at: &#8220;Cryptanalysis and Historical Research&#8221; by Eric Sams, from Archivaria 21 (1985-1986) [it's actually an extended version of two earlier articles he wrote for the TLS in 1977 [...]]]></content:encoded>
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