On purpose

[Mark Knowles]

A basic understanding of historical periods is required before engaging in these kinds of discussions.

People were reading Aristotle before the time of the Voynich. Plato's works were being translated in the 15th century.

To quote Plato:

"Philosophy begins in wonder"

To quote Socrates, courtesy of Plato:

"An unexamined life is not worth living."

These are the kind of thinkers/writers that educated people were reading in the time of the Voynich.

These are not the mindsets of people trying to make money or gain status. The love of and delight in knowledge seem to have been ideas that at least some people were familiar with in the early 15th century. So I think it not unreasonable to suggest that these kind of motivations might have been very important ones to the author of the Voynich. So the very functional arguments for the writing of the manuscript seem very limiting.