[Movie] Is the Voynich Manuscript an Elaborate Medieval Hoax?

[davidjackson]

Bored, so wrote this theory because Human.  --This post is kinda relevant so Admins move or remove as you deem fit

Five students have a beef with their Professor,
so they want to make a nonsense mss and totally fool him to prove to themselves he is the chump that they take him for.
They get a bargain basement batch of vellum from one of their buddies who is the son of a parchment producer.
Yes its got holes and flaws in some sheets, the sheets have differing thicknesses and havent been trimmed but its a good price for that much vellum.

I think you're attributing waaaaay too much work ethic to students in any time   And there is no way the students wouldn't tell everybody and anybody what had happened - otherwise, what's the point?
Actually, exactly this scenario happened to Athanasius Kircher a few hundred years later. Some of his students thought he was getting cocky, so they forged a letter in invented hieroglyphics, which he happily confirmed was genuine and translated for them. It was all nonsense, and Kircher was roundly shown up for the pompous fool he was.