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<p>Dear Archivists,</p>
<p>Some of you may be interested to know that the codex of a well known archive manuscript MS408 (Voynich) has been deciphered. The writing system and alphabet are unique to the island of Ischia, Italy, and the language is the only known example of proto-Romance,
which evolved into the modern Romance languages. The manuscript was written c. 1444 for Maria of Castile, Queen of Aragon, as a memoire and book of womanly advice. The manuscript is therefore very important to European linguistics and humanities. </p>
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<p>A peer-reviewed paper is being published in April, 2019. <span style="font-size: 12pt;">In the meantime, t</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont;">hree pre-print papers are available to freely download
from the linguistics website LingBuzz:</span></p>
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first paper explains the writing system and language: </span></font><a href="http://ling.auf.net/lingbuzz/003737" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" id="LPlnk196176"><font size="3" face="Calibri,serif,EmojiFont"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont;">http://ling.auf.net/lingbuzz/003737</span></font></a></span></font></div>
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second paper translates a pictorial </span></font><font size="3" face="Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,Helvetica,EmojiFont,Apple Color Emoji,Segoe UI Emoji,NotoColorEmoji,Segoe UI Symbol,Android Emoji,EmojiSymbols"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont;">map from
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third paper focuses on volcanological details from the map</span></font><font color="#212121" size="3" face="Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont;"><span style="color: black;">:</span> </span></font></font></font><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, Helvetica, EmojiFont, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", NotoColorEmoji, "Segoe UI Symbol", "Android Emoji", EmojiSymbols;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont;"><a href="https://ling.auf.net/lingbuzz/004381" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">https://ling.auf.net/lingbuzz/004381</span></a></span></span></div>
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