In your opinion, did the writing of the VM start closer to 1412 or closer to 1440?

[ReneZ]

Garments and fashions in the ms. suggest earlier rather than later I think, but then a later illustrator may have been following existing illustrations (poorly) rather than drawing from life.

To me it appears to be a later attempted copy of an earlier drawing. People argue about the fashion, but I don't see the Voynich author being very concerned that the fashion is up to date in the drawings, especially given how crude the drawings are.

That sounds a lot like making the data fit the theory.

Allow me to put more trust in the opinion of a medieval MS curator specialised in this aspect, than in that of Voynich theorists.

That doesn't make me 'right', it just explains my logic.