Discussion of Voynich MS-related theories

[ReneZ]

Not only documents. Foliation, pagination, marginalia, binding... whatever.

It is a useful piece of historical information that most of the manuscripts from the collection that included the Voynich MS pre-1912 are now stored in the Vatican library.

It is particularly interesting that many of them have been digitised and can be seen on-line.

This allows one to see for oneself that almost all of these manuscripts share a common cover, similar to that of the Voynich MS. This proves that the cover is not the one it had when it was in Prague. It was replaced by the Jesuits.

Just a few days ago, I found a second example where one can see parts of the binding through the cover.
Both examples have a binding that is similar to that in the Voynich MS (before the repairs by Kraus).
This increases the probability that the Jesuits did not only replace the cover, they also redid some of the stitching.

This is not certain, and not yet a mature conclusion.

If it is true, then the MS would have been completely rebound in Rome, and some of the missing pages may have been removed at this point. This is not ground-breaking news, but adds a new perspective.

I might add that an original document related to the Voynich MS, that was considered lost, was re-discovered last year, also in Rome. This is also not ground-breaking, because photographic copies of it exist. However, it shows that such discoveries are still made even today.