[Blog Post] The use of scissors and penknife in the Voynich Manuscript

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These are narrow strips to support the binding. There are several of them throughout the MS.
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I believe, from memory, that they are also parchment.

If they were dated, we might know when this binding was done.
That sounds interesting, but really won't help us a lot, and these tests are expensive.

They are very messy. As though they were cut after they were bound in.

If they are made to support the binding, wouldn't they have been cut and trimmed before binding them in? More evenly. I'm not disputing it, it just seems out of character with the way things are generally done.