Morten St George Theory

[Morten St. George]

A number of the people who say that the VMS has escaped medieval influence believe it to be a hoax, a later rather than earlier creation, so they do not all believe it to be an earlier manuscript.

Funny that you mention hoaxes as just a few days ago I saw a flick about them. The film's creator, who does not name himself but claims to have lectured the NSA on the VMS, provides us with a list of ten Red-Flag indicators of forgery, as follows:

"1. Contains anachronistic content

2. Elicits multiple, widely contrary expert opinions

3. Has poor, contrary and/or missing versions of provenance

4. Owner/seller lies about provenance

5. Contains incorrect uses of iconography

6. Improper tools, methods, and/or material used

7. It looks "too new"

8. There is a reluctance to produce, and/or test, original

9. Copy of illustrations from books and catalogs

10. Financial or other incentive is offered for positive opinion"

Guess what? The VMS scores a direct hit on ALL ten indicators of forgery!

My take on this is as follows: Not in a million years would I believe that Wilfred Voynich, in 1910, was able to foresee the invention of radiocarbon dating (1940s) and therefore seek (and find!) more than a hundred pages of blank, 500-yr. old vellum to use for his forgery.

I have no qualms about the lack of evidence that Kircher was ever in possession of the VMS (the MSG Theory concurs), or no record of the VMS in catalogs, or that Wilfred might have been a shady character and all the rest, but all that can be true while the VMS itself remains genuine.

This guy points to New World plants and animals as evidence of forgery, but under MSG Theory (that the VMS was compiled in the New World) those arguments collapse.

He also points to Rosicrucian drawings as evidence of forgery, but under MSG Theory (that the Rosicrucians were in possession of the VMS) these arguments likewise collapse. Rather than Voynich copying the RC drawings, we could have a reverse situation, where the VMS influenced the RC drawings.

Since the Rosicrucians were scientists known to have been involved with optics, VMS vials (for the crushing, mixing and storage of herbs) could even have influenced microscope design!

Sir Francis Bacon: "We have also glasses and means to see small and minute bodies perfectly and distinctly; as the shapes and colours of small flies and worms, grains and flaws in gems, which cannot otherwise be seen, observations in urine and blood not otherwise to be seen."