Period of Original Use

[Linda]

@ Koen

I don't think we really understand a single part of the ms. from the imagery, there are only parallels to contemporary imagery, which show that it fits into contemporary culture_I mean we have a zodiac, but I don't think there is a understanding of the what and why and something like the bathing part is not intellegible at all 

@ VViews

The main sign of use are the marginalia, which should have been written in the generation after the Voynich author-
Parchment is quite robust, signs of physical use are not so common (there ae exceptions like the German Krönungsevangeliar, where you can see where the Emperors kissed the Gospels), the Voynich exceptions are 1r and 116v, which could mean it was not bound for a long time and some stains and there are trimmings (I don't think someone has ever made a list of the obvious trimmings on the lower margins)

Although we may not agree on what the imagery shows, i think it can be assumed that those who put it together would know and therefore would possibly be able to make use of the visuals without decoding the text.

I think the vms was likely kept looseleaf for awhile, in separate packets. There current binding appears to be different than the intended ordering in more than one place.