Writing papers about the Voynich MS

[Mark Knowles]

Elegant Enigma should be a 100% precondition, but almost nobody has read it.

voynich.nu is great, particularly about the life of the manuscript post-Sinapius (which has never really interested me). But few recent 'theorists' seem to have read so much as the front page.

The Curse of the Voynich has a whole ton of other stuff (but few people have read it, and I don't expect this to change any time soon).

To be fair, it is not so easy to obtain a copy of the Curse at the moment, so it is unlikely many more people will read it for the time being.("An Elegant Enigma" is easily downloadable online.) I am not criticising you for ceasing to sell it, I appreciate that there is a certain amount of hassle doing it. I was very fortunate to be able to buy one of the last copies that you sold. It is a very speculative book, but I don't have a problem with speculation. Also it is really intelligent and interesting speculation and I am not aware of another text on the subject of the Voynich to match it in that. In addition it contains plenty of useful factual information. Like so many things time will decide how on the money you or any of us were in our ideas concerning the manuscript. But frankly I think we would benefit from more intelligent, but speculative books like yours as there appears to be a real dearth of them.

I would also be inclined to think that the Curse would have value to those interested in ciphers, which is your speciality, even for those with no specific interest in the Voynich.