Morten St George Theory

[Morten St. George]

Once again you are inventing history, making it up, instead of researching it. There were many private scriptoria and studios creating manuscripts for the nobility and for wealthy merchants (especially those in Venice, Milan, and Florence and in many other places OUTSIDE of Italy). Monks most certainly did not do it all.

It seems that your shortcut solution to all the things you don't know is to simply invent what you think it is. Sorry, that doesn't wash here. Posting made-up nonsense wastes your time and ours.

I recall having once encountered a private publication of Plutarch's Lives paid for by a nobleman of Naples, but that was in the late 15th century. As far as I know, in the early 15th century (the VMS date) Italy was still in the age of darkness when few people beyond the monks knew how to read and write. That is hardly a figment of my imagination as I am not the first or only person to make such a claim.

And writing in Italy, when done, was typically done in Latin, not in Voynichese. In fact, there appears to be no other work written in Voynichese which in itself makes it unlikely that the VMS came from Italy or anywhere else where the Inquisition oversaw publications.

I see resemblances on the style of plant depictions but possibly the VMS authors and the Italian botanists were both influenced by herbals from an earlier medieval period. Beyond the herbals, however, the VMS does not look like anything published in Italy during the 15th century.