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		<title>Green Voynich pools? I really don&#8217;t *think* so, sorry. :-(</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2011/03/04/green-voynich-pools-i-really-dont-think-so-sorry</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Mar 2011 23:51:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Herbals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Voynich Manuscript]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve had it suggested that to entertain a popular audience, a Voynich Manuscript documentary should showcase a live reenactment of its naked ladies bathing in green muddy slime. In this film-making scenario, the cameras could linger longingly on their most interesting period features, which (I can only presume) means their hair and makeup. Doubtless it would look great [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve had it suggested that to entertain a popular audience, a Voynich Manuscript documentary should showcase a live reenactment of its naked ladies bathing in green muddy slime. In this film-making scenario, the cameras could linger longingly on their most interesting period features, which (I can only presume) means their hair and makeup. Doubtless it would look great [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Occitan herbals and recipe books&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2010/09/04/occitan-herbals-and-recipe-books</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2010/09/04/occitan-herbals-and-recipe-books#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Sep 2010 20:56:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Herbals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marginalia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Voynich Manuscript]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Occitan]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s time for a new Voynich research direction! Thanks to Benedek Lang&#8217;s &#8220;Unlocked Books&#8221;, I&#8217;m starting to realise that I&#8217;ve perhaps spent too long thinking solely about codicology of the single text, when what is often as important is the &#8216;codicological context&#8217; &#8211; i.e. the collection of other (but presumably conceptually related in some way) [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[It&#8217;s time for a new Voynich research direction!
Thanks to Benedek Lang&#8217;s &#8220;Unlocked Books&#8221;, I&#8217;m starting to realise that I&#8217;ve perhaps spent too long thinking solely about codicology of the single text, when what is often as important is the &#8216;codicological context&#8217; &#8211; i.e. the collection of other (but presumably conceptually related in some way) texts [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Some online herbals&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2010/01/09/some-online-herbals</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2010/01/09/some-online-herbals#comments</comments>
		<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>Voynich Summer Camp, transcript of session #1&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2009/09/11/voynich-summer-camp-transcript-of-session-1</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2009/09/11/voynich-summer-camp-transcript-of-session-1#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2009 14:58:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Astrology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Beinecke Library]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Herbals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marginalia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Richard Kieckhefer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Voynich Manuscript]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Budapest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Grove]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[For the recent Hungarian Voynich summer camp, I offered to do a couple of IM sessions over Skype, both of which seemed to go down very well. I thought many Cipher Mysteries readers might enjoy going over the transcript, so here it is (lightly edited for house style, as usual, and with after-the-event section dividers to make it not [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[For the recent Hungarian Voynich summer camp, I offered to do a couple of IM sessions over Skype, both of which seemed to go down very well. I thought many Cipher Mysteries readers might enjoy going over the transcript, so here it is (lightly edited for house style, as usual, and with after-the-event section dividers to make it not [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>&#8220;De Aqua&#8221; Voynich theory on YouTube&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2009/08/24/de-aqua-voynich-theory-on-youtube</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2009/08/24/de-aqua-voynich-theory-on-youtube#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2009 08:44:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Alchemy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Astrology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Herbals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marginalia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Milan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Venice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Voynich Theories]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Following six years of arduous research, an unnamed 44-year-old German industrial technician has been trying (unsuccessfully) since 2005 to get his/her Voynich theory &#8220;De Aqua&#8221; published, either as a book or as an article. Frustrated by the lack of progress, last month he/she placed thirty-three sizeable chunks of it onto YouTube. Of course, I fully understand that a busy person [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Following six years of arduous research, an unnamed 44-year-old German industrial technician has been trying (unsuccessfully) since 2005 to get his/her Voynich theory &#8220;De Aqua&#8221; published, either as a book or as an article. Frustrated by the lack of progress, last month he/she placed thirty-three sizeable chunks of it onto YouTube.
Of course, I fully understand that a busy person like [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Q13 and Voynich balneology sources&#8230;?</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2009/06/18/q13-and-voynich-balneology-sources</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2009/06/18/q13-and-voynich-balneology-sources#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 11:07:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Antonio Averlino]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Glen Claston]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Herbals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Curse of the Voynich]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Voynich Manuscript]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[One of the (frustratingly small) number of art history leads the Voynich Manuscript&#8217;s author dangles before our eyes is the balneology part of Q13 (&#8220;quire 13&#8243;). Specifically, there are two bifolios that depict baths and pools, where the pictures helpfully allow us to reconstruct what the page layout originally was:           84r/84v &#8211; contains Q13&#8242;s quire number [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[One of the (frustratingly small) number of art history leads the Voynich Manuscript&#8217;s author dangles before our eyes is the balneology part of Q13 (&#8220;quire 13&#8243;). Specifically, there are two bifolios that depict baths and pools, where the pictures helpfully allow us to reconstruct what the page layout originally was:
          84r/84v &#8211; contains Q13&#8242;s quire number (which [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Secrets of Herbiculture or of Herbal Medicine?</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2009/03/30/secrets-of-herbiculture-or-of-herbal-medicine</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2009/03/30/secrets-of-herbiculture-or-of-herbal-medicine#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2009 16:45:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Glen Claston]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ciphermysteries.com/?p=983</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As should be apparent from recent posts, for the last few weeks I&#8217;ve had Glen Claston bouncing a number of his Voynich ideas, observations and hypotheses off me. In many ways, he and I are like conjoined research twins &#8211; though truth be told, if I happen to say &#8220;poe-tay-toe&#8221;, he&#8217;ll go out of his way [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[As should be apparent from recent posts, for the last few weeks I&#8217;ve had Glen Claston bouncing a number of his Voynich ideas, observations and hypotheses off me. In many ways, he and I are like conjoined research twins &#8211; though truth be told, if I happen to say &#8220;poe-tay-toe&#8221;, he&#8217;ll go out of his way [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Voynich herbal page order&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2009/03/27/voynich-herbal-page-order</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2009/03/27/voynich-herbal-page-order#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2009 21:59:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Glen Claston]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Herbals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marginalia]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Another day, another provocative (but good) question from my fellow contrarian Glen Claston (we&#8217;re both part of the Contraria diaspora):- So Nick, since you&#8217;re one of those who think that the book was dropped and put back together haphazardly, you&#8217;d be the one to ask for evidence that the various quires you think are misordered [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Another day, another provocative (but good) question from my fellow contrarian Glen Claston (we&#8217;re both part of the Contraria diaspora):-
So Nick, since you&#8217;re one of those who think that the book was dropped and put back together haphazardly, you&#8217;d be the one to ask for evidence that the various quires you think are misordered are [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Glen Claston on binding&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2009/03/23/glen-claston-on-binding</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2009/03/23/glen-claston-on-binding#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2009 09:18:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>glenclaston</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Astrology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Glen Claston]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Herbals]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nick: here&#8217;s another full-on guest post from Glen Claston, with a little bit of friendly banter from me in blue&#8230; The different ways some little detail can be viewed is so much of the fun we have with the VMS.  Until supporting [or refuting] information can be found for either view, neither is more valid than [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Nick: here&#8217;s another full-on guest post from Glen Claston, with a little bit of friendly banter from me in blue&#8230;
The different ways some little detail can be viewed is so much of the fun we have with the VMS.  Until supporting [or refuting] information can be found for either view, neither is more valid than the [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Voynich Quire 8&#8230; what happened?</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2009/02/28/voynich-quire-8-what-happened</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2009/02/28/voynich-quire-8-what-happened#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Feb 2009 15:22:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Glen Claston]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Magic Circles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Voynich Manuscript]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[f57b]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve just had a nice email from my old friend GC, asking what I think happened with Quire 8 (&#8220;Q8&#8243;). You see, the problem is that Q8 contains a whole heap of codicological oddities, all of which fail to join together in a satisfactory way:- f57v has a bottom-right piece of marginalia that (I think) looks rather [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve just had a nice email from my old friend GC, asking what I think happened with Quire 8 (&#8220;Q8&#8243;). You see, the problem is that Q8 contains a whole heap of codicological oddities, all of which fail to join together in a satisfactory way:-

f57v has a bottom-right piece of marginalia that (I think) looks rather like [...]]]></content:encoded>
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