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

[LisaFaginDavis]

When travel restrictions are lifted in the US, I will be travelling to Yale regularly to teach and will have an opportunity to look at the VMS. I will, as part of other work, take a closer look at what's happening after f. 94 and will report back! It looks like a binding stay, but since there aren't any elsewhere in the manuscript (and you wouldn't expect binding stays in a parchment manuscript anyway), it's certainly possible that two conjoint leaves have been cut out. If there are leaves missing here, they would have had to have been removed quite early in the manuscript's history, since the foliation doesn't account for them (going straight from 94 to 95, but with, as you all know, "95" written on the verso of the right-hand panel to be visible when folded closed).