[split] The Strange Thing on 116v

[Koen G]

That's a conclusion I don't necessarily follow, Anton. How many hands did Currier discern in the main text again? Some five or six? Which one does the Voynichese writing match? Why can't it have been written by a later owner who also mastered the script?

Either way, if it's true that a handful of people wrote the main text and if we must conclude that the marginalia were written by one of those, it's possible that they were only added by a relatively minor player. Or not. 

But does the evidence really allow us to conclude that the marginalia were written by the two main scribes?

Additionally, marginalia on last pages often go all over the place. Their spatial order need not imply chronological order.