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waveuponwave t1_j4avpq4 wrote

Really interesting!

So assuming it really belonged to Leonhard Rauwolf... his life seems fairly well researched (just judging from Wikipedia). Do you think there's a chance to trace the ownership of the manuscript even further?

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stegu2 OP t1_j4bez50 wrote

Yes, there are still thousands of letters of physicians and scholars scattered in archives through Europe that have not been indexed. I believe that there might be a letter out there where Carl Widemann or someone else is mentioning the manuscript who certainly already looked interesting to a 16th century scholar. I spend almost two years and tracked down a lot of previous unknown letters but without any direct mention so far.

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