[Article] Voynich Paleography article

[Mark Knowles]

It is possible to identify the same scribe writing in different languages - Peter Stokes has done several important studies on this. It isn't easy, but it's possible. See, for example, this blogpost: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.

Oh. That's wonderful. It would allow me to validate my theory or put it to bed.

There are letters that I know exist, but have not seen, in the Milan State Archives in the hands of 2 brothers, though there may or may not be writing in the hands of other brothers there. I have not been to the Milan State Archives, though they have scanned me and sent me documents from their archives that I found useful. I don't know if they will be willing to locate letters for me as I don't know precisely where they would be within the archive. There is an enciphered letter that I am very interested in, which Lydia Cerioni in "La diplomazia..." lists and I hope the archive might help me find. Other letters could only be in Latin unless a mixture of cipher and latin. Though this is all a moot point as I would assume the archives will be closed for some time, because of the coronavirus. To be honest I was for some time inclined to the view that the manuscript was a product of one of the brothers with assistance from those responsible to him, but my thinking was beginning to entertain the possibility that another brother might be involved before your article as they were clearly close and would have spent a significant time together and if one had produced such a work the others would have known about it.

Looks like the archive might still be open from what I see on google.

Appears to be closed to the public, but unclear if they are open to document enquiries.