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

[Mark Knowles]

If the author(s) of the Voynich wanted to produce a hoax manuscript for sale would they have really produced something that looked like the Voynich, surely a customer would not be interested in purchasing an "ugly duckling". Was there really a market for such texts at that time? If there was a market then why are there no other such texts from the time. If there was no known market for such a text at that time would it have not been a big risk of time, money and effort to produce and try to sell such a text? If the Voynich was commissioned in advance by a collector with the desire to buy an arcane or magical secret text, wouldn't the collector not want to buy an "ugly duckling". If the Voynich was not produced to make money then why would one produce a hoax?

In short I find it hard to see what the rationale for producing a hoax would really be.