18-06-2017, 09:50 PM
It was Stephen Skinner's Foreword to this upcoming book that floated (not for the first time, and it would seem not for the last) the notion of authorship by a Jewish person in some Northern Italian town such as Pisa. Perhaps his claim was built on something more substantial than a hopeful finger in the wind: but so far I haven't yet seen it.
Personally, I don't see the point of this book at all: the point must be rapidly approaching where we have more sort-of-facsimile Voynich editions than genuinely tenable Voynich hypotheses. For all the technical precision of Rafal and Rene's introduction section, what does this whole exercise gain us?
Personally, I don't see the point of this book at all: the point must be rapidly approaching where we have more sort-of-facsimile Voynich editions than genuinely tenable Voynich hypotheses. For all the technical precision of Rafal and Rene's introduction section, what does this whole exercise gain us?