(30-05-2022, 03:36 PM)proto57 wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.I would say... and have often written... that there are some unfortunate parallels to the other famous holding by Yale, the Vineland Map. It has had a tumultuous history, with much disagreement in the expert and amateur communities. It has been held up, to me in fact, as a good example of why I was wrong, because the Vineland map was real. I argued the two are not linked in the sense that if one was fake, or real, the other was the same. I don't think that. But there are parallels, and valuable lessons in them: Chief is, even a fake, even a bad fake, can be seen and argued, in good faith, by many experts, for many years, as real.
That is the parallel to the Voynich I see now, as the Vineland map is now a known an accepted fake even by Yale. I think, with time, Yale will also come to accept the Voynich as a hoax. It will only take a full understanding, at least discussion, of the real problems with it. That is still is not done to the extend it demands.
I think comparing the VMS with the Vinland map is not useful. The Vinland Map has been analytically exposed as a forgery, 20th century titanium pigments have been used in the ink. The opposite is the case with the VMS (McCrone,2009).
By the way, it is relatively easy to find a sheet of parchment from this period to make a fake. To assemble blank sheets in the quantity of a manuscript from the same period is, well, let's say, a rather difficult challenge. Not to mention other issues ( binding, wormholes, ink etc.).