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	<title>Cipher Mysteries &#187; Rene Zandbergen</title>
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		<title>Happy Voynich New Year 2012!</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2012/01/10/happy-voynich-new-year-2012</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 20:11:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Historical Ciphers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rene Zandbergen]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Happy New Year to all Cipher Mysteries readers, for it might well be a good year for historical cipher mystery research! As doubtless most of you know, 1912 was the year when Wilfrid Voynich [very probably] bought the &#8220;ugly duckling&#8221; artefact now named after him from the Villa Mondragone in Frascati in Italy, making [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[A Happy New Year to all Cipher Mysteries readers, for it might well be a good year for historical cipher mystery research!

As doubtless most of you know, 1912 was the year when Wilfrid Voynich [very probably] bought the &#8220;ugly duckling&#8221; artefact now named after him from the Villa Mondragone in Frascati in Italy, making this [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Letters hidden in Voynich plants (yet again)&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2011/11/10/letters-hidden-in-voynich-plants-yet-again</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2011/11/10/letters-hidden-in-voynich-plants-yet-again#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Nov 2011 20:31:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Beinecke Library]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rene Zandbergen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Voynich Manuscript]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[P. Han]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Reuben Ogburn]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sander Manche]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I recently found an old email from Sander Manche mentioning his Voynich blog: going through its pages just now, one particular post on letters hidden in Voynich plants jumped out at me. To be precise, it discussed a single symbol that appears to have been hidden in the middle of the plant drawings on both [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[I recently found an old email from Sander Manche mentioning his Voynich blog: going through its pages just now, one particular post on letters hidden in Voynich plants jumped out at me. To be precise, it discussed a single symbol that appears to have been hidden in the middle of the plant drawings on both [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<slash:comments>14</slash:comments>
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		<title>Review of &#8220;The Book That Can&#8217;t Be Read&#8221; Voynich documentary&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2011/02/21/review-of-the-book-that-cant-be-read-voynich-documentary</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2011/02/21/review-of-the-book-that-cant-be-read-voynich-documentary#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Feb 2011 14:59:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Edith Sherwood]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Edward Kelley]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Dee]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Milan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rene Zandbergen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Curse of the Voynich]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Venice]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve just watched the National Geographic / Naked Science documentary on the Voynich Manuscript, courtesy of a Stateside friend (thanks!). Regular Cipher Mysteries readers will already know how my review of it is supposed to go &#8211; &#8216;that, despite a few inaccuracies, it was great to see the Voynich Manuscript being brought to a popular audience&#8216;. But actually, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve just watched the National Geographic / Naked Science documentary on the Voynich Manuscript, courtesy of a Stateside friend (thanks!). Regular Cipher Mysteries readers will already know how my review of it is supposed to go &#8211; &#8216;that, despite a few inaccuracies, it was great to see the Voynich Manuscript being brought to a popular audience&#8216;.
But actually, the [...]]]></content:encoded>
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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>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2010/12/17/well-heres-where-the-answer-may-be-found#comments</comments>
		<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>The four main Voynich ghosts&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2010/06/15/the-four-main-voynich-ghosts</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2010/06/15/the-four-main-voynich-ghosts#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jun 2010 23:07:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Glen Claston]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jorge Stolfi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Leonell Strong]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marke Fincher]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rene Zandbergen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Voynich Manuscript]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[At the start of my own VMs research path, I thought it was important to consider everyone&#8217;s observations and interpretations (however, errrm, &#8217;fruity&#8217;) as each one may just possibly contain that single mythical seed of truth which could be nurtured and grown into a substantial tree of knowledge. Sadly, however, it has become progressively clearer to me as time has [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[At the start of my own VMs research path, I thought it was important to consider everyone&#8217;s observations and interpretations (however, errrm, &#8217;fruity&#8217;) as each one may just possibly contain that single mythical seed of truth which could be nurtured and grown into a substantial tree of knowledge. Sadly, however, it has become progressively clearer to me as time has [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Rene&#8217;s voynich.nu relaunch&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2010/04/22/renes-voynich-nu-relaunch</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2010/04/22/renes-voynich-nu-relaunch#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Apr 2010 09:08:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Marginalia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rene Zandbergen]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As should be pretty clear from my posts over the years, I&#8217;m a big fan of René Zandbergen: he&#8217;s one of the very few Voynich researchers that have managed to keep a consistently clear head over the years, and it is his generally even-handed approach that casts a pleasantly affable shadow over voynich.nu, the website he [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[As should be pretty clear from my posts over the years, I&#8217;m a big fan of René Zandbergen: he&#8217;s one of the very few Voynich researchers that have managed to keep a consistently clear head over the years, and it is his generally even-handed approach that casts a pleasantly affable shadow over voynich.nu, the website he [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>The evolution of Voynichese&#8230;?</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2010/03/22/the-evolution-of-voynichese</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2010/03/22/the-evolution-of-voynichese#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Mar 2010 15:52:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Rene Zandbergen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Voynich Manuscript]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Even though René Z likes to tut-tut Voynich speculation (and usually with good reason, it has to be said), there&#8217;s something about the maturity and cohesion of Voynichese as a system that makes me quite sure that, unlike Athena, it did not suddenly spring forth fully-grown (and, indeed, fully-armed) from its parent&#8217;s forehead. I further infer that the [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Even though René Z likes to tut-tut Voynich speculation (and usually with good reason, it has to be said), there&#8217;s something about the maturity and cohesion of Voynichese as a system that makes me quite sure that, unlike Athena, it did not suddenly spring forth fully-grown (and, indeed, fully-armed) from its parent&#8217;s forehead. I further infer that the [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Letters hidden in Voynich plants&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2010/02/27/letters-hidden-in-voynich-plants</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2010/02/27/letters-hidden-in-voynich-plants#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Feb 2010 13:15:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Jorge Stolfi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Philip Neal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rene Zandbergen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Voynich Manuscript]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[For years, numerous Voynich researchers have pored over the VMs&#8217; confusing images, hunting for any tiny clues that might possibly be hidden beneath the clumsily-applied paint. And yes, I admit that I&#8217;ve done probably more than my fair share of this kind of thing (Curse pp.96-102 stands as testament to this endeavour): so it&#8217;s now [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[For years, numerous Voynich researchers have pored over the VMs&#8217; confusing images, hunting for any tiny clues that might possibly be hidden beneath the clumsily-applied paint. And yes, I admit that I&#8217;ve done probably more than my fair share of this kind of thing (Curse pp.96-102 stands as testament to this endeavour): so it&#8217;s now [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<slash:comments>19</slash:comments>
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		<title>Rene Z&#8217;s bifolio surprise&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2010/02/17/rene-zs-bifolio-surprise</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2010/02/17/rene-zs-bifolio-surprise#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2010 14:57:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Apothecary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Glen Claston]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rene Zandbergen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Voynich Manuscript]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s something neat and slightly unexpected from long-time Voynich Manuscript researcher (and Voynich theory über-skeptic) Rene Zandbergen I think you&#8217;ll probably appreciate. Arguably the least-discussed subject in the VMs is the set of tiny plant drawings in the two &#8216;pharma&#8217; (pharmacological) sections, which somehow usually manage to fly beneath most researchers&#8217; radars. Yet it has been known for decades that [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s something neat and slightly unexpected from long-time Voynich Manuscript researcher (and Voynich theory über-skeptic) Rene Zandbergen I think you&#8217;ll probably appreciate.
Arguably the least-discussed subject in the VMs is the set of tiny plant drawings in the two &#8216;pharma&#8217; (pharmacological) sections, which somehow usually manage to fly beneath most researchers&#8217; radars. Yet it has been known for decades that a [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<slash:comments>12</slash:comments>
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		<title>MS Coislin 338 &amp; the Voynich Manuscript&#8230;?</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2010/02/16/ms-coislin-338-the-voynich-manuscript</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2010/02/16/ms-coislin-338-the-voynich-manuscript#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 23:31:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Copernicus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rene Zandbergen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Voynich Manuscript]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Rene Zandbergen recently stumbled upon a circular drawing in the Bibliotheque Nationale de France&#8217;s MS Coislin 338, and wondered whether it might be &#8220;a possible precedent for a Voynich astronomical illustration, where the original MS is Greek&#8220;, just as for two other Greek manuscripts (Codex Taurinensis C VII 15 and MS Vat Gr. 1291) he [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Rene Zandbergen recently stumbled upon a circular drawing in the Bibliotheque Nationale de France&#8217;s MS Coislin 338, and wondered whether it might be &#8220;a possible precedent for a Voynich astronomical illustration, where the original MS is Greek&#8220;, just as for two other Greek manuscripts (Codex Taurinensis C VII 15 and MS Vat Gr. 1291) he [...]]]></content:encoded>
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