New Post: "I Do Listen to the Experts. Do YOU?"

[ReneZ]

Hi Rich,

"It is a fact that the overwhelming number of expert opinions, before the c14 tests were determined, actually believed that the Voynich was inked with it's lettering and illustrations at far different times than that dating eventually showed. 

So far, so good. Overwhelming is perhaps an overstatement, and many were credulously following Wilfrid's fairy tale of a Roger Bacon origin, so got it wrong for that simple reason.
No problem, I would say.

Only one book cataloger, Lehmann-Haupt, in fact, matched those C14 dates. 

But this is a mis-representation. Four of them were close to the date, as I wrote before but you choose to ignore. Three of them had time to examine the MS and were within a few decades of the C-14 date.
(On a side note, two of them stated emphatically that the MS is genuine, not a modern fake).

In addition, several post-C14 experts strongly feel the illustrations were added long after the creation of the calfskin. 

Who are they? Honest question.

We also know (it is a fact, also) that blank parchment can, and has, sat for even centuries.

This is a bit of a half-truth. Blank old parchment exists in places where it cannot just be bought.
Larger amounts on the market are much less clear. I would not call it a fact.

But I can concede here. In the end, it is a case of "he could have". There is no evidence that he ever acquired blank parchment.

Interestingly, and as you well know, he DID acquire unused old paper.
He did not use that to create any fake.
Being a dealer, he sold it at a profit for what it was: unused sheets of old paper.
No risk, quick profit.