[Article] Yet another solution: The Voynich Silenen Comedy

[hatoncat]

The marginal note "Brug" You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. means the Habsburg city "Brugg" in older spelling, or it is written intentionally distorted.

This is the 1st quire mark, perfectly normal abbreviated Latin "primus".
[/quote]

This may be a moonshot, but Egloff Etterlin was born in Brugg, was a scribe for the city of Lucerne  and his handwriting could be compared to the You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. marginalia:

You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.
You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.
You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. [picture]

"Egloff Etterlin (c. 1400 – c. 1470) served as secretary of the city of You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. from 1427 until 1452, and during 1458/9 as judge.

"He is the author of the "Silver Book" (Silbernes Buch), an extensive You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. which was richly ornamented in 1505. Introducing Italian methods of book-keeping, he greatly facilitated the organisation of the Lucerne chancery, allowing the administration of the growing You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. and its presidency in the Swiss Diet. Egloff is the father of You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.. It is uncertain whether Egloff himself was the author of a (lost) chronicle. Egloff died at some point between 1469 and 1477."

The parchment was radiocarbon dated to the early-mid 1400s. Is it possible Jost obtained the mostly unused parchment from Egloff, who wrote in his birthplace, as they both were in Lucerne at the time? Has anyone suggested Etterlin wrote part of the manuscript?

"Dedicated to the clergy, in his thirteenth year he[Jost von Silenen] received a benefice from the Lucerne monastery, among whose members he is named in 1457, but then he went to Rome and entered the service of the cardinal of Estouteville. In 1469 the Lucerne Council appointed him provost of the Beromünster monastery. 

Another theory is that a German speaking owner such as Kirchner attempted to annotate the page containing the coat of arms Brugg (AG), although his handwriting or pen is not nearly the same as the the broader strokes of VM: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.