Voynich Authorship

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I don't detect anything in the illustrations and diagrams that might require serious concealment, but who knows?

Yes, especially in the plant part, the encryption actually seems unnecessary. But if it should be e.g. about plants for abortion, it looks quite different. Dioscorides mentions in his "Materia medica" more than 100 plants with the indication "fruit expulsion" ( source: Deutsche Apothekerzeitung ). In German translations, the applications were often rewritten as "labor-promoting". It is not at all unlikely that the original text also appear in the VMS. Also recipes with hallucinogenic plants were better concealed in the Middle Ages to avoid a conflict with the church.

Unique is and remains the fact that the entire VMS can not be read. It would have been more likely to encrypt only relevant parts of the manuscript.