My Queries about the Manuscript

[RenegadeHealer]

I think the origin can best be deduced from the design of the illustrations. When I make stylistic comparisons, I often come to Alsace or the Lake Constance region. This is of course very speculative and far from being proven.
I would not overestimate the swallowtail merlons in this context. One can only safely assume that the author has seen or heard of them. But that does not automatically mean that the VMS was also written in Northern Italy.

I recently fell into a wikihole that included the western Alpine region historically called Savoy, which includes parts of modern day France, Italy, Switzerland, and Germany. It struck me that Savoy is a region at the intersection of lot of clues the VMS seems to be giving us. There have been a number of distinct Romance and Germanic dialects used there since the Middle Ages.

I think it’s wise to simply refer to “the Alpine region of Europe” as a major contender for the VMS’s place of manufacture. This pays respect to the fact that the political and ethnic map of Europe was drawn rather differently than today. It also discourages theorists from any of the modern nations that have land in the Alps who have ethnonationalist motives for claiming the VMS as their people’s cultural property. Anything that cuts down on the number of cranks in Voynich studies is a good thing.