30-03-2020, 05:10 PM
(29-03-2020, 09:27 PM)nickpelling wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.I'd add that the quire numbers are genuinely 15th century beyond all reasonable doubt, and this severely limits the number of specific (i.e. non-handwave-y) hoax theories that the evidence can support.
Well I think you know that I accept that the quire numbers may be authentic. But whether they are or not, does not affect any hoax theory that I know of, one way or the other.
On the placement of them, however, if authentic: The usual location of quire numbers, according to Clemen's book "Introduction to Manuscript Studies" is at the center bottom of a leaf. On the Voynich, they are off to the side. I believe this could be evidence... in addition to your own observation that various markings imply the bi-folios came from the same sources... that larger quires were cut down to make the smaller Voynich.
Another clue is, of course, the foldouts... which Yale admits are anachronistic... and I think may imply full size quires were the source to begin with.