12-09-2019, 01:26 PM
(12-09-2019, 09:22 AM)ReneZ wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.How much work was it to write the entire bible, by hand, in an elegant and consistent, yet cramped, script on over 500 folios, while paying attention not to make any mistakes? I don't know the answer, but it has been done thousands of times.
How much work was it to compose and write the 'Liber Floridus'? Here I know the answer: it took 30 years.
How much work was it to write the Codex Gigas? We just learned that it can hardly be read without laying on the book, and this would have been worse for the person(s) who wrote it.
So, it is clearly pointless to base any argument about the Voynich MS on how much work one or the other option would have implied. People in the Middle Ages had a completely different concept of time than us modern people do.
My point really focusses on if I were try to produce a mystery looking "hoax" manuscript for sale, as an example, then what would be the quickest and easiest way of doing that? I question whether producing the complex structured text that we see in the Voynich would be in fact easier than other ways of achieving the same or a similar goal.