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		<title>I&#8217;ve just got back from Italy&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2011/07/19/ive-just-got-back-from-italy</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jul 2011 12:31:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Milan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Venice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Voynich Manuscript]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;where I&#8217;ve been filming in Venice and Milan for a Voynich documentary to come out (I guess) in late 2012. So, I&#8217;m very sorry if I&#8217;ve been somewhat quiet of late, but this process has involved a fair amount of behind-the-scenes preparation to try to get the most out of all the different locations. Apart [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[&#8230;where I&#8217;ve been filming in Venice and Milan for a Voynich documentary to come out (I guess) in late 2012. So, I&#8217;m very sorry if I&#8217;ve been somewhat quiet of late, but this process has involved a fair amount of behind-the-scenes preparation to try to get the most out of all the different locations.
Apart from [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Milanese enciphered letters, call for help&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2011/06/28/milanese-enciphered-letters-call-for-help</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2011/06/28/milanese-enciphered-letters-call-for-help#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jun 2011 23:32:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Milan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Voynich Manuscript]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Regular Cipher Mysteries readers will know that I&#8217;m pretty good at digging historical things up, at shining lights under long-unmoved archival rocks. Well&#8230; my challenge this week was to find some mid-Quattrocento Milanese enciphered letters, and though I&#8217;ve possibly got most of the way to an answer, I&#8217;ve ended up a bit stuck, and would [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Regular Cipher Mysteries readers will know that I&#8217;m pretty good at digging historical things up, at shining lights under long-unmoved archival rocks. Well&#8230; my challenge this week was to find some mid-Quattrocento Milanese enciphered letters, and though I&#8217;ve possibly got most of the way to an answer, I&#8217;ve ended up a bit stuck, and would [...]]]></content:encoded>
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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>
		<category><![CDATA[Voynich Theories]]></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>A miscellany of nine-rosette links&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2010/05/29/a-miscellany-of-nine-rosette-links</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2010/05/29/a-miscellany-of-nine-rosette-links#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 29 May 2010 09:30:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Milan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Richard SantaColoma]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Robert Brumbaugh]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tycho Brahe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Venice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Voynich Manuscript]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[For the most part, constructing plausible explanations for the drawings in the Voynich Manuscript is a fairly straightforward exercise. Even its apparently-weird botany could well be subtly rational (for example, if plants on opposite pages swapped their roots over in the original binding, in a kind of visual anagram), as could the astronomy, the astrology, and the water [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[For the most part, constructing plausible explanations for the drawings in the Voynich Manuscript is a fairly straightforward exercise. Even its apparently-weird botany could well be subtly rational (for example, if plants on opposite pages swapped their roots over in the original binding, in a kind of visual anagram), as could the astronomy, the astrology, and the water [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>A little more on Savoy&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2010/05/17/a-little-more-on-savoy</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2010/05/17/a-little-more-on-savoy#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 May 2010 10:58:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Holy Roman Empire]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Milan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Voynich Manuscript]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Perhaps because of its geography (spanning a mountain range) or its powerful neighbours (France, Milan), Savoy is one of those nebulous, hard-to-grasp historical regions with a perimeter seemingly made of rubber. Here&#8217;s a map of 15th century Savoy courtesy of the very useful sabaudia.org: as landmarks, you can see Milan, Turin, Genoa and Lyon &#8211; just off [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Perhaps because of its geography (spanning a mountain range) or its powerful neighbours (France, Milan), Savoy is one of those nebulous, hard-to-grasp historical regions with a perimeter seemingly made of rubber.
Here&#8217;s a map of 15th century Savoy courtesy of the very useful sabaudia.org: as landmarks, you can see Milan, Turin, Genoa and Lyon &#8211; just off to [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Savoy palaeography: was michiton originally nichil?</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2010/05/04/savoy-palaeography-was-michiton-originally-nichil</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2010/05/04/savoy-palaeography-was-michiton-originally-nichil#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 May 2010 09:39:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Marginalia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Milan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Voynich Manuscript]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Because of the lack of satisfactory evidence to work with, there are two basic Voynich research methodologies: concrete (which focus on those miserably few things we know about the VMs); and speculative (which try to determine which of the quadrillion possible explanations for the VMs are most inherently plausible). In line with the first of the [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Because of the lack of satisfactory evidence to work with, there are two basic Voynich research methodologies:

concrete (which focus on those miserably few things we know about the VMs); and
speculative (which try to determine which of the quadrillion possible explanations for the VMs are most inherently plausible).

In line with the first of the two, I&#8217;ve spent [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>&#8220;Voynich Averlino hypothesis&#8221; summary&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2010/01/10/voynich-averlino-hypothesis-summary</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2010/01/10/voynich-averlino-hypothesis-summary#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jan 2010 10:33:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Antonio Averlino]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cicco Simonetta]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Leon Battista Alberti]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Milan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Curse of the Voynich]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the last few days, several people have independently asked me to summarize my &#8220;The Curse of the Voynich&#8221; Voynich Manuscript theory (that it is an enciphered copy of Antonio Averlino [Filarete]&#8216;s lost books of secrets). Good theories generally improve when you retell them a few times: for example, back when I was first pitching my [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[In the last few days, several people have independently asked me to summarize my &#8220;The Curse of the Voynich&#8221; Voynich Manuscript theory (that it is an enciphered copy of Antonio Averlino [Filarete]&#8216;s lost books of secrets). Good theories generally improve when you retell them a few times: for example, back when I was first pitching my [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Pre-1450 German Voynich possibility&#8230;?</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2009/12/18/pre-1450-german-voynich-possibility</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2009/12/18/pre-1450-german-voynich-possibility#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 22:08:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Marginalia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Milan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Prague]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Voynich Manuscript]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Volkhard Huth]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The recent Austrian Voynich documentary gave a nice clear radiocarbon dating (1404-1438 at 95% confidence) for the vellum, and finished by suggesting (based on the swallow-tail merlons on the nine-rosette castle) a Northern Italian origin for the manuscript. But I have to say that as art history proofs go, that last bit is a little bit, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[The recent Austrian Voynich documentary gave a nice clear radiocarbon dating (1404-1438 at 95% confidence) for the vellum, and finished by suggesting (based on the swallow-tail merlons on the nine-rosette castle) a Northern Italian origin for the manuscript. But I have to say that as art history proofs go, that last bit is a little bit, [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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		<title>Voynich Manuscript &#8211; the state of play&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2009/12/04/voynich-manuscript-the-state-of-play</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2009/12/04/voynich-manuscript-the-state-of-play#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Dec 2009 12:16:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Antonio Averlino]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Beinecke Library]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Edward Kelley]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Glen Claston]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Dee]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Milan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Roger Bacon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rosicrucianism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Venice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Voynich Manuscript]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Voynich Theories]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Andreas Sulzer]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[For decades, Voynich Manuscript research has languished in an all-too-familiar ocean of maybes, all of them swelling and fading with the tides of fashion. But now, thanks to the cooperation between the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library and the documentary makers at Austrian pro omnia films gmbh, we have for the very first time a basic [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[For decades, Voynich Manuscript research has languished in an all-too-familiar ocean of maybes, all of them swelling and fading with the tides of fashion. But now, thanks to the cooperation between the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library and the documentary makers at Austrian pro omnia films gmbh, we have for the very first time a basic [...]]]></content:encoded>
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