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[Anton]

Is it consensus in the discussion that the text was inserted afterwards and not at the same time with creation of the VMS ? Is there an assumed time frame ( for example derived from the typeface ) ?

I don't think there exists such consensus. The "time of creation" of the VMS is something uncertain, I mean that the carbon dating gives the range, setting the earliest point in time, and that's all. The general consensus is that the MS is a 15th century document, judging by writing and imagery styles. This is corroborated by the carbon dating, but even that gives us only a range. Even if it gave us a single year, it still tells nothing of whether it's been a one-time effort (say, the book was written in a year) or an enterprise continuous in time (say, a work by several scribes in succession, like e.g. father, then son etc.).

What's quite certain is that the person(s) who left these marginalia were familiar with the Voynichese, otherwise they would not have used it in line with plain text. That suggests that even if the marginalia postdate the VMS creation, the time difference is not very large (let's say, the lifespan of the scribe).

I do not remember if there has been any analysis done for ascribing the Voynichese portions of the marginalia to one of the VMS scribes. If that's possible, that would be interesting.