Resolving whether 86v is a map or not

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Linda, after having spent a considerable time on this subject I am pretty determined to run it to ground. I would really like to compile the best expert opinion on whether it is a map or not. They may be able to refer us to relevant sources, that we are not aware of, or present us with relevant arguments. Nobody can guarantee anything, but one has to do the best one can to answer this question.

Mark, that's not really how historical research works. I went through tons of 15th century Italian historical maps when researching The Curse of the Voynich, but they tended to be most accessible in collections of historical maps of specific towns (e.g. a cartographic history of town/region X).

One problem was that reproduction rights were prohibitively expensive, so I could only include a tiny number in my book. :-(