Doug Ewell wrote:
> Neither Bodley's message nor Geist's Web site mention the
> year, or even the century, in which the Codex was written.
As far as I can remember, it dates back to the middle of the 1980's.
It was probably 1984 or 1985: the publishing house (Franco Maria Ricci,
Milan) was on my way from the Far Eastern Languages school that I attended
to the underground station, and when I first saw the book in FMR bookshop I
was probably on my first or second year of Chinese.
It surprises me that someone really considers it "a book": I have always
seen it used only as luxury ornament in the apartments of the Milanese
bourgeoisie. :-)
_Marco