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I took a closer look at your picture of the parchment warehouse. Apart from the confusion, where it is already questionable whether it is even possible to keep order for 500 years so as not to mix anything up.

In a period of time where every building undergoes several renovations and thus also moves inventory.

The way the parchment is stored alone would be an invitation and a buffet for insects. It's just too much of a breeding ground. Apart from mould and mice. But I still can't find any traces on the inside pages of the VM.

Consequently, he would have to have read the parchment for his forgery, which makes it even less likely to find clean parchment of the same age, and in the required quantity.

What is your explanation?

As I understand your point here, you are asking how I would explain the cleaner inside pages of the Voynich, when the images of the inside of Voynich's Libreria show randoms stacks of materials... which you suppose should show random signs of insect and rodent abuse?

Well, as all of us can, in any direction... as we don't know specific cases, nor this one, if the materials did, indeed, come from the 500,000 item piles there. But I would say one possible reason might be that the Voynich materials, were, in fact, stacked in some way, or ways.

I mean, like a book is essentially stacked leaves or pages, and it is understood that the insects do not really eat parchment. The ones in the Voynich are said to originate in some original wood cover, no? That they stopped after the first leaf or two of parchment. Knowing this is a possible put forth, then I see no reason why it would not be the same case were the leaves stacked blank somewhere, or even, originally, in book form. For in such a case, wouldn't the same effects apply as suggested for a real Voynich, and for what we observe? That is, some number of blank pages?

Sorry if i misunderstood your question and premise, but that is how I would answer it.





(by the way, the photographer who took those pictures in 1908 also happened to later photograph the Mondragone for a travel book. She later became well known as a pioneer of women's mountain climbing, and lived an interesting and diverse life)
Edited to add: The photographer was Aubry Le Blond, and she also photographed the Villa Mondragone for the 1912 "The Old Gardens of Italy, and How to Visit Them". Anyone interested in seeing the Villa in 1912 can view the book here: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.

Rich.