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	<title>Cipher Mysteries &#187; Apothecary</title>
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		<title>&#8220;Love In Idleness&#8221; and the VMs&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2010/02/25/love-in-idleness-and-the-vms</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 21:27:51 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Apothecary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Voynich Manuscript]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This week is &#8220;Shakespeare Week&#8221; at my son&#8217;s school: his year have been allocated A Midsummer Night&#8217;s Dream, and so get to do their lessons in costume for a day. All of which yielded an ideal family opportunity to break out one of those tediously aspirational The-Bard-For-Kidz boxed sets and run through a heavily abridged version [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[This week is &#8220;Shakespeare Week&#8221; at my son&#8217;s school: his year have been allocated A Midsummer Night&#8217;s Dream, and so get to do their lessons in costume for a day. All of which yielded an ideal family opportunity to break out one of those tediously aspirational The-Bard-For-Kidz boxed sets and run through a heavily abridged version [...]]]></content:encoded>
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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>
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				<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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		<title>Some online herbals&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2010/01/09/some-online-herbals</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Jan 2010 15:50:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Alchemy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Apothecary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Herbals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Voynich Manuscript]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Blogger of the visually bizarre BibliOdyssey has a number of nice online herbal scans you might well enjoy: each page has a brief description of the related manuscript and links to other places you can read more about the subject, while each picture links to its own Flickr page (which is handy). &#8216;Arzneipflanzenbuch&#8216; [BSB Cod.icon. 26], [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Blogger of the visually bizarre BibliOdyssey has a number of nice online herbal scans you might well enjoy: each page has a brief description of the related manuscript and links to other places you can read more about the subject, while each picture links to its own Flickr page (which is handy).

&#8216;Arzneipflanzenbuch&#8216; [BSB Cod.icon. 26], Augsburg [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>&#8220;Das Voynichmanuskript aus pharmaziehistorischer Sicht&#8221;&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2009/10/29/das-voynichmanuskript-aus-pharmaziehistorischer-sicht</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2009/10/29/das-voynichmanuskript-aus-pharmaziehistorischer-sicht#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 16:07:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Apothecary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Voynich Manuscript]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dr. Michael Mönnich]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Here are two German papers (from 2007 and 2008) by Dr. Michael Mönnich on the Voynich Manuscript I stumbled across a few months ago, both of which place it within the context of the history of pharmacy: Pharmazeutische Aspekte im Voynich-Manuskript. In: &#8220;Drugs and medicines from sides of the Atlantic Ocean&#8221; 38th International Congress of the History [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Here are two German papers (from 2007 and 2008) by Dr. Michael Mönnich on the Voynich Manuscript I stumbled across a few months ago, both of which place it within the context of the history of pharmacy:
Pharmazeutische Aspekte im Voynich-Manuskript.
In: &#8220;Drugs and medicines from sides of the Atlantic Ocean&#8221;
38th International Congress of the History of Pharmacy, Seville, [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Antonio of Florence translation&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2009/09/10/antonio-of-florence-translation</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2009/09/10/antonio-of-florence-translation#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 08:08:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Alchemy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Apothecary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jan Hurych]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Prague]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Antonio of Florence]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Jan Hurych has very kindly emailed in a translation of the short piece of text I uncovered relating to the 14th century Prague apothecary Antonio of Florence. With a few minor style tweaks, here it is:- The restoration of gothic painting in the house U Lilie ["By Lilly"] no. 459/1, Malé náměstí ["The Little Square"] 11. [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Jan Hurych has very kindly emailed in a translation of the short piece of text I uncovered relating to the 14th century Prague apothecary Antonio of Florence. With a few minor style tweaks, here it is:-
The restoration of gothic painting in the house U Lilie ["By Lilly"] no. 459/1, Malé náměstí ["The Little Square"] 11.
During the [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Two Renaissance cold cases, solved&#8230;?</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2008/10/09/two-renaissance-cold-cases-solved</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2008/10/09/two-renaissance-cold-cases-solved#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2008 08:42:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Apothecary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Poison]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Giovanni Pico della Mirandola]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Savonarola]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Italian scientists claim to have solved two mysterious deaths from the Quattrocento: those of Giovanni Pico della Mirandola and Agnolo Ambrogini, two big-brained Florentines at Lorenzo de&#8217; Medici&#8217;s court who suddenly passed away within only a few weeks of each other in 1494. Though some historians had conjectured the pair might have died of syphilis, the contemporary rumours [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Italian scientists claim to have solved two mysterious deaths from the Quattrocento: those of Giovanni Pico della Mirandola and Agnolo Ambrogini, two big-brained Florentines at Lorenzo de&#8217; Medici&#8217;s court who suddenly passed away within only a few weeks of each other in 1494.
Though some historians had conjectured the pair might have died of syphilis, the contemporary rumours of [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Voynich f36r plant = geranium?</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2008/07/05/voynich-f36r-plant-geranium</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2008/07/05/voynich-f36r-plant-geranium#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Jul 2008 08:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Apothecary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Herbals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Voynich Manuscript]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Aboca Museum]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[crane's bill]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[f36r]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[geranium]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Leonhard Fuchs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ruprechtskraut]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A few days ago, my wife suggested that the plant depicted on f36r might be a variety of geranium: on a hunch, I thought I&#8217;d compare it with the plants in Fuchs&#8217; famous herbal &#8211; and Google quite unexpectedly directed me to a museum in Tuscany. You see, in 2002 the Aboca Museum in Sansepolcro [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[A few days ago, my wife suggested that the plant depicted on f36r might be a variety of geranium: on a hunch, I thought I&#8217;d compare it with the plants in Fuchs&#8217; famous herbal &#8211; and Google quite unexpectedly directed me to a museum in Tuscany.
You see, in 2002 the Aboca Museum in Sansepolcro embarked [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Review of &quot;Shopping in the Renaissance&quot;&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2008/04/15/review-of-shopping-in-the-renaissance</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2008/04/15/review-of-shopping-in-the-renaissance#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Apr 2008 03:23:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Antonio Averlino]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Apothecary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cicco Simonetta]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Historical Research]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Voynich Manuscript]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Evelyn Welch]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Once upon a time, history was a really hard subject to enjoy: a dreary rollcall of [macho/loser] kings and [powerful/scheming] queens, endlessly (a) conspiring against other, (b) fighting expensive wars where both sides tended to lose, and/or (c) endlessly frittering extorted tax money on self-glorifying monuments masquerading as high culture. Then along came a new [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Once upon a time, history was a really hard subject to enjoy: a dreary rollcall of [macho/loser] kings and [powerful/scheming] queens, endlessly (a) conspiring against other, (b) fighting expensive wars where both sides tended to lose, and/or (c) endlessly frittering extorted tax money on self-glorifying monuments masquerading as high culture.
Then along came a new generation [...]]]></content:encoded>
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