Signatures are rarely easy to read, and often letters are left out, but it does look like the first name might be George (Gregor/Gregory is also possible), but the surname might be something like Ulbauer, or Nibauer or something-bauer or -baier or -baum
Hard to tell though because the stem hits the "a" at the bottom rather than the top, so Williams is probably as good a reading as any.
It does sound rather secretive in the way it is worded. I wonder if some of Voynich's finds were going to the "underground" in terms of buyers/collectors who don't want anyone to know what they do or don't have in their collections.
Hard to tell though because the stem hits the "a" at the bottom rather than the top, so Williams is probably as good a reading as any.
It does sound rather secretive in the way it is worded. I wonder if some of Voynich's finds were going to the "underground" in terms of buyers/collectors who don't want anyone to know what they do or don't have in their collections.