13-03-2019, 08:40 AM
The VMs shows signs of use (which means of course the user did understand the text) far into the second half of the 15th c. (quire numbering, marginalia, 'non-Voynichese' script and other things).In my opinion this period ends with the wider use of printed books, which helps us in having an idea what the VMs was. There seems to be a gap in the 16th c., if not some of f. 1r belongs to this c. I think the foliation belongs to the 17th c., either to Prague after the reappearence of the ms. or even to Rome and Kircher
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