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	<title>Cipher Mysteries &#187; John Manly</title>
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		<title>The Voynich Translation &#8211; Chapter 3</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2010/10/05/the-voynich-translation-chapter-3</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Oct 2010 08:30:35 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Beinecke Library]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cipher Fiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Manly]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Short Stories]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Edith Rickert]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[[Here are links to chapters 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5. Enjoy!] * * * * * * * Chapter 3 &#8211; &#8220;Unjust Desserts&#8221; &#8220;I suppose you just happened to pick this up at a rummage sale?&#8221;, said Emm, minutely scrutinizing the jacket&#8217;s material through her Swiss army knife&#8217;s magnifying glass. &#8220;No, it was my grandfather&#8217;s &#8211; Mani [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[[Here are links to chapters 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5. Enjoy!]
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Chapter 3 &#8211; &#8220;Unjust Desserts&#8221;
&#8220;I suppose you just happened to pick this up at a rummage sale?&#8221;, said Emm, minutely scrutinizing the jacket&#8217;s material through her Swiss army knife&#8217;s magnifying glass.
&#8220;No, it was my grandfather&#8217;s &#8211; Mani Harvitz, he was a [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Edith Rickert, revisited&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2010/07/24/edith-rickert-revisited</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2010/07/24/edith-rickert-revisited#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Jul 2010 11:55:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[John Manly]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wilfrid Voynich]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Edith Rickert]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The century since Wilfrid Voynich unearthed his now-eponymous manuscript has seen many groups of codebreakers take a tilt at its cryptographic windmills. The most famous of these was William Friedman&#8217;s &#8220;First Study Group&#8221; of WWII cryptologists: but I&#8217;ve recently become interested in finding out to what degree WWI codebreakers tried to get in on the act. [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[The century since Wilfrid Voynich unearthed his now-eponymous manuscript has seen many groups of codebreakers take a tilt at its cryptographic windmills. The most famous of these was William Friedman&#8217;s &#8220;First Study Group&#8221; of WWII cryptologists: but I&#8217;ve recently become interested in finding out to what degree WWI codebreakers tried to get in on the act. [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Square #1 &amp; wife #8&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2010/02/23/square-1-wife-8</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2010/02/23/square-1-wife-8#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 01:49:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cipher Fiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hans Kraus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Manly]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Short Stories]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Voynich Manuscript]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wilfrid Voynich]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[William Romaine Newbold]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I remember when I first saw the &#8220;Roger Bacon Manuscript&#8221;: Wilfrid Voynich brought it with him to Philadelphia for his lecture back in 1921 &#8211; my old friend Bill Newbold was there, taking in every word, nodding like the crazy-but-brilliant spiritualist and Antioch-obsessed nutter he was. So it just had to be Bacon behind it all, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[I remember when I first saw the &#8220;Roger Bacon Manuscript&#8221;: Wilfrid Voynich brought it with him to Philadelphia for his lecture back in 1921 &#8211; my old friend Bill Newbold was there, taking in every word, nodding like the crazy-but-brilliant spiritualist and Antioch-obsessed nutter he was. So it just had to be Bacon behind it all, [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>The latest date for the Voynich Manuscript&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2009/10/08/the-latest-date-for-the-voynich-manuscript</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2009/10/08/the-latest-date-for-the-voynich-manuscript#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 11:53:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[John Manly]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marginalia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Voynich Manuscript]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In 1931, John Matthews Manly (who was very sharp, both historically and cryptologically) pointed out that the Voynich quire numbers were written in a 15th century hand &#8211; you can tell this from the characteristic &#8217;4&#8242;s, &#8217;5&#8242;s, and &#8217;7&#8242;s. To be precise, even though a fair few of the VMs quire numbers appear to have been added later [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[In 1931, John Matthews Manly (who was very sharp, both historically and cryptologically) pointed out that the Voynich quire numbers were written in a 15th century hand &#8211; you can tell this from the characteristic &#8217;4&#8242;s, &#8217;5&#8242;s, and &#8217;7&#8242;s. To be precise, even though a fair few of the VMs quire numbers appear to have been added later [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Edith Rickert&#8217;s &amp; Margaret Rickert&#8217;s papers&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2009/04/24/edith-rickerts-margaret-rickerts-papers</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2009/04/24/edith-rickerts-margaret-rickerts-papers#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2009 15:24:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[John Manly]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Voynich Manuscript]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[William Romaine Newbold]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Edith Rickert]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Margaret Rickert]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As a brief follow-up to yesterday&#8217;s post on Edith Rickert, I wondered whether her papers might be in the University of Chicago archives &#8211; and indeed here they are. For any Voynich researcher who just happens to be passing by, you might consider looking through Box 1 Folder 8 (for correspondence) and Box 10 Folder 13 (for photographs of [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[As a brief follow-up to yesterday&#8217;s post on Edith Rickert, I wondered whether her papers might be in the University of Chicago archives &#8211; and indeed here they are. For any Voynich researcher who just happens to be passing by, you might consider looking through Box 1 Folder 8 (for correspondence) and Box 10 Folder 13 (for photographs of [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Edith Rickert and the Voynich Manuscript&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2009/04/23/edith-rickert-and-the-voynich-manuscript</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2009/04/23/edith-rickert-and-the-voynich-manuscript#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2009 20:27:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Grolier Club]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Manly]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wilfrid Voynich]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[William Romaine Newbold]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[An off-blog email exchange about the Grolier Club (where Wilfrid Voynich&#8217;s estate bequeathed eight boxes of papers relating to his book business in America) nudged my memory about a minor player on the 20th century Voynich stage&#8230; When Voynich researcher Richard SantaColoma visited the Grolier Club back in May 2008, he trawled through these boxes (Box 6 in [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[An off-blog email exchange about the Grolier Club (where Wilfrid Voynich&#8217;s estate bequeathed eight boxes of papers relating to his book business in America) nudged my memory about a minor player on the 20th century Voynich stage&#8230;
When Voynich researcher Richard SantaColoma visited the Grolier Club back in May 2008, he trawled through these boxes (Box 6 in particular) [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>John Matthews Manly&#8217;s papers&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2008/07/27/john-matthews-manlys-papers</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2008/07/27/john-matthews-manlys-papers#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jul 2008 08:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[John Dee]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Manly]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Roger Bacon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Voynich Manuscript]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[One of the major figures in the early 20th century history of the Voynich Manuscript was John Matthews Manly, the man who definitively debunked Newbold&#8217;s strange micrographic cipher claims. During the First World War, Manly worked in the US Military Intelligence Division, and left in 1919 having attained the rank of Major. After that, he [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[One of the major figures in the early 20th century history of the Voynich Manuscript was John Matthews Manly, the man who definitively debunked Newbold&#8217;s strange micrographic cipher claims. During the First World War, Manly worked in the US Military Intelligence Division, and left in 1919 having attained the rank of Major. After that, he [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>More Dan Burisch Voynichification&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2008/06/27/more-dan-burisch-voynichification</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2008/06/27/more-dan-burisch-voynichification#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2008 08:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Antonio Averlino]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dan Burisch]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gordon Rugg]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Manly]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Leo Levitov]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Voynich Manuscript]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Voynich Theories]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Benjamin Kerstein]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Josef6]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It used to be the case that Google could find hardly anything connecting Dan Burisch and the Voynich Manuscript apart from my postings here: but now there are over 50 hits. Some of these, such as this one, are from people on the inside of the labyrinth/RPG: these tend to throw yet more sand in [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[It used to be the case that Google could find hardly anything connecting Dan Burisch and the Voynich Manuscript apart from my postings here: but now there are over 50 hits.
Some of these, such as this one, are from people on the inside of the labyrinth/RPG: these tend to throw yet more sand in the [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Voynich and PhD people&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2008/06/14/voynich-and-phd-people</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2008/06/14/voynich-and-phd-people#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jun 2008 08:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[John Manly]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Leonell Strong]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Voynich Manuscript]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[William Romaine Newbold]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Angela Catalina Ghionea]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[PhD]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I recently stumbled upon an active Voynich researcher I&#8217;d never heard of: Angela Catalina Ghionea (note that, even though Internet Explorer throws up lots of warnings for her website, it&#8217;s basically OK), who is a teaching assistant and 3rd year PhD student in the History Department at Purdue University. She&#8217;s &#8220;currently focused on the most [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[I recently stumbled upon an active Voynich researcher I&#8217;d never heard of: Angela Catalina Ghionea (note that, even though Internet Explorer throws up lots of warnings for her website, it&#8217;s basically OK), who is a teaching assistant and 3rd year PhD student in the History Department at Purdue University.
She&#8217;s &#8220;currently focused on the most mysterious [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Thorndike on the Voynich Manuscript!</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2008/06/05/thorndike-on-the-voynich-manuscript</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2008/06/05/thorndike-on-the-voynich-manuscript#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jun 2008 08:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Alchemy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cipher Non-Fiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Manly]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Leonardo da Vinci]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lynn Thorndike]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Magic Circles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Roger Bacon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Voynich Manuscript]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wilfrid Voynich]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[William Romaine Newbold]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve often wondered what Lynn Thorndike thought of the Voynich Manuscript: after all, he (his first name came from the town of Lynn, Massachusetts) lived from 1882 to 1965, and continued to publish long after his retirement in 1950, and so was active before, during and after the 1920s when Wilfrid Voynich&#8217;s cipher manuscript mania/hype [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve often wondered what Lynn Thorndike thought of the Voynich Manuscript: after all, he (his first name came from the town of Lynn, Massachusetts) lived from 1882 to 1965, and continued to publish long after his retirement in 1950, and so was active before, during and after the 1920s when Wilfrid Voynich&#8217;s cipher manuscript mania/hype [...]]]></content:encoded>
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