A possible source for the "modern italian copy"

[ReneZ]

Hello VViews,

she's a professional graphics designer, and the team made the effort of using original ink and paint compositions.
I very specifically remember that she considered the drawings intricate but not excessively so.
The parchment was of course modern, but I don't know from which animal, and at the time this was not known
for the Voynich MS anyway.

Applying the inks was completely straightforward.
You can see it happening in the documentary when writing the text. The scribe (whose name cannot be spoken ;-) ) is writing in real time using the same materials.

What did not work *at all* was applying the paint. It almost became a crisis. First attempts just left pools of liquid that would not dry and would move uncontrollably over the entire page (e.g. for the big leaf of the 'water lily'). There were several attempts (which is not unusual in film-making) and I believe that the end result involved some trickery, esp. pretending it was finished, but it was still completely wet.
It was evident that this was much more difficult than anticipated, and the right formula had not been found.

I lost contact with her immediately after the project finished.