Skeptoid #252: The Voynich Manuscript by Brian Dunning #voynich #beinecke #freemasons #rogerbacon #SkeptoidPodcast #podcast #bot The true history and meaning of history's most famous undeciphered book.
https://skeptoid.com/episodes/4252

@overholt #maphistory #binding This is incredible … thanks for sharing!! Maybe the #beinecke will get it?

An enjoyable narrative of the evolution of indexes from medieval manuscripts to our modern books:
Medieval Indices: Unlikely Leisurely Reading
https://bookhistory.yale.edu/blog/medieval-indices-unlikely-leisurely-reading
#beinecke #yale #book_history #medieval #manuscript #index

Serendipity strikes again!
I've found another manuscript containing the texts in my "Discommodities" cluster

The other day I was listening to an interview of @overholt on a student podcast, and part-way through he mentioned the Houghton's visting fellowships. This prompted me to go and check Harvard's catalogue. I didn't find any MSS of relevance to m, there, but started looking at other US libraries with fellowship programs, which led me back to Yale's Beinecke Library.

I had previously ordered a copy of a Guillim-related MS, but couldn't remember the spelling (turns out it was Gwyllym), so entered Funerals as the keyword instead, and came across an entry for a MS of "Ancient orders and ceremonies respecting the processions, funerals, habiliments of the several degrees of noble estate" by Sir John Harington

Turns out this is BL Add MS 27632, and it has been digitised as part of the EEBO Tracts supplement

#BookHistory #Guillim #Beinecke #Heraldry

https://open.spotify.com/episode/0ZO1aW8MMLxC2z9fYGi6hA?si=5q68vXApTpuYbO05SRtukg&nd=1

#sdtps I, Rich Voy #Beinecke am of a #dream; a most unusual dream so it is. Fair hard it would for me to be to say what kind of dream it is. Being in saying so, let me here attempt to expound it for you as it goes.

#storytelling #RVBD2