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   John Overholt (overholt@glammr.us)'s status on Saturday, 11-Jan-2025 03:11:43 JST John Overholt

   There are some clues that this is not really the handwritten logbook of Columbus’s second voyage to the Americas, chief among them that it’s written in English. https://blogs.bl.uk/digitisedmanuscripts/2024/12/choose-wisely.html

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     valhalla (valhalla@social.gl-como.it)'s status on Saturday, 11-Jan-2025 05:10:05 JST valhalla

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     @overholt but it is an authentic historical fake! :D
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     Curmudgeon (jetton@mastodon.online)'s status on Sunday, 12-Jan-2025 03:46:16 JST Curmudgeon

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     @overholt

     Not only in English, but not even Middle English. Not even Early Modern English.
     But Ye Olde Soundeth Moderne Englishe.

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     Curmudgeon (jetton@mastodon.online)'s status on Sunday, 12-Jan-2025 03:46:48 JST Curmudgeon

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     @overholt

     When offered for sale to the British Library the Keeper of Manuscripts replied he was not interested because he'd already got one.

     Monty Python before Monty Python.

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