04-05-2021, 03:49 PM
To all readers of this thread:
It has been impressed upon me that a mere visit to Heidelberg on embassy for a matter of weeks alone would not have been nearly enough time for an Englishman such as Edward, 2nd Duke of York, to have learned and mastered the ability to write in a Central European style of script as thoroughly as the primary author of the Voynich MS had clearly mastered its script.
In order to support my theory, I will need to find historical evidence that Edward, or whomever I may propose as the primary author of the MS and designer of its script, somehow received extended teaching or training in such a script at some time during the period between his visit to Heidelberg on embassy in the late 1390s and the beginning date of the composition of the Voynich MS, which cannot have been earlier than 1404 in any case.
Naturally, it will require some time--probably more than a matter of weeks--for me to research this topic as thoroughly as will be necessary to corroborate, or fail to corroborate, my theory.
Geoffrey
It has been impressed upon me that a mere visit to Heidelberg on embassy for a matter of weeks alone would not have been nearly enough time for an Englishman such as Edward, 2nd Duke of York, to have learned and mastered the ability to write in a Central European style of script as thoroughly as the primary author of the Voynich MS had clearly mastered its script.
In order to support my theory, I will need to find historical evidence that Edward, or whomever I may propose as the primary author of the MS and designer of its script, somehow received extended teaching or training in such a script at some time during the period between his visit to Heidelberg on embassy in the late 1390s and the beginning date of the composition of the Voynich MS, which cannot have been earlier than 1404 in any case.
Naturally, it will require some time--probably more than a matter of weeks--for me to research this topic as thoroughly as will be necessary to corroborate, or fail to corroborate, my theory.
Geoffrey