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	<title>Cipher Mysteries &#187; Rafal Prinke</title>
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		<title>The secret history of &#8220;Antonio of Florence&#8221;&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2009/09/08/the-secret-history-of-antonio-of-florence</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2009 18:25:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Alchemy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Antonio Averlino]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Prague]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rafal Prinke]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rene Zandbergen]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve just received (directly from the author, thanks!) a copy of Vladimír Karpenko&#8217;s admirably thorough 1990 AMBIX paper on the &#8220;cesta spravedlivá&#8221; pair of manuscripts. From his analysis, it seems very much as though these are both genuinely 15th century and (just as Rafal predicted) entirely unconnected with the VMs. Oh well! Even so, the secret history [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve just received (directly from the author, thanks!) a copy of Vladimír Karpenko&#8217;s admirably thorough 1990 AMBIX paper on the &#8220;cesta spravedlivá&#8221; pair of manuscripts. From his analysis, it seems very much as though these are both genuinely 15th century and (just as Rafal predicted) entirely unconnected with the VMs. Oh well!  
Even so, the secret history [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>&#8220;The True Path of Alchemy&#8221; is *not* the VMs&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2009/08/30/the-true-path-of-alchemy-is-not-the-vms</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2009/08/30/the-true-path-of-alchemy-is-not-the-vms#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2009 11:37:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Antonio Averlino]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Jan Hurych]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marginalia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Philip Neal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Prague]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rafal Prinke]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rene Zandbergen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rudolf II]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Otakar Zachar]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A big tip of the hat to Rafal Prinke: thanks to a swift reply from him last night, I can now say definitively that &#8220;The True Path of Alchemy&#8221; is not the VMs (confirming Rene&#8217;s suspicion), because both still exist independently. And the romanticized 1904 mention of the former by Henry Carrington Bolton that quickened my historical pulse [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[A big tip of the hat to Rafal Prinke: thanks to a swift reply from him last night, I can now say definitively that &#8220;The True Path of Alchemy&#8221; is not the VMs (confirming Rene&#8217;s suspicion), because both still exist independently. And the romanticized 1904 mention of the former by Henry Carrington Bolton that quickened my historical pulse [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Earliest archival reference to the Voynich Manuscript&#8230;???</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2009/08/29/earliest-archival-reference-to-the-voynich-manuscript</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2009/08/29/earliest-archival-reference-to-the-voynich-manuscript#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Aug 2009 12:42:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Alchemy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Antonio Averlino]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Holy Roman Empire]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jacobus de Tepenecz]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Johannes Marcus Marci]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Dee]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Prague]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rafal Prinke]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rudolf II]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Voynich Manuscript]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A vast constellation of curious books revolves around the hazily uncertain core of the Voynich Manuscript: as with most things, some are outright good, some are just plain bad, while most live in a mixed-up zone in the middle. Henry Carrington Bolton&#8217;s (1904) &#8221; The Follies of Science at the Court of Rudolph II&#8221; is a poster-child for that mixed-up [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[A vast constellation of curious books revolves around the hazily uncertain core of the Voynich Manuscript: as with most things, some are outright good, some are just plain bad, while most live in a mixed-up zone in the middle.
Henry Carrington Bolton&#8217;s (1904) &#8221; The Follies of Science at the Court of Rudolph II&#8221; is a poster-child for that mixed-up zone [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>German zodiac woodcuts&#8230;?</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2009/01/17/german-zodiac-woodcuts</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2009/01/17/german-zodiac-woodcuts#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Jan 2009 16:03:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Jorge Stolfi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rafal Prinke]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rene Zandbergen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Robert Brumbaugh]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Venice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Voynich Manuscript]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Erwin Panofsky]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ewa Sniezynska-Stolot]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sagittarius]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[My last post on Elmar Vogt&#8217;s new blog received a comment from infinitii, asking me for the source for the suggestion that the zodiac motifs may have been copied from a (possibly 14th century) German woodcut calendar. I had long forgotten the story&#8217;s origin, but a quick grep through the VMs mailing list archives (the ones [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[My last post on Elmar Vogt&#8217;s new blog received a comment from infinitii, asking me for the source for the suggestion that the zodiac motifs may have been copied from a (possibly 14th century) German woodcut calendar. I had long forgotten the story&#8217;s origin, but a quick grep through the VMs mailing list archives (the ones [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>&quot;The Alchemy Guild&quot;&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2008/08/02/the-alchemy-guild</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2008/08/02/the-alchemy-guild#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Aug 2008 08:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Alchemy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cesky Krumlov]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rafal Prinke]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rudolf II]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Alchemy arguably dates back to Alexandria, and there are many alchemical manuscripts dating through to the 13th and 14th century (though Lynn Thorndike noted that the 15th century was something of a fallow period). However, the modern organization The International Alchemy Guild traces its practical roots back to what was going in 16th century Bohemia, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Alchemy arguably dates back to Alexandria, and there are many alchemical manuscripts dating through to the 13th and 14th century (though Lynn Thorndike noted that the 15th century was something of a fallow period). However, the modern organization The International Alchemy Guild traces its practical roots back to what was going in 16th century Bohemia, [...]]]></content:encoded>
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