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Now it may be that the newer book makes it clear that the author is aware that the MS is not on paper but on parchment - someone might have seen this - but it demonstrates the lack of seriousness in the whole thing.

He seems confused in the new book too: calfskin is not paper. Probably the cause of the confusion is "vellum paper" that imitates calfskin.

In 2009 University of Arizona scientists on Yale’s behalf performed a radio-carbon test of the vellum or calfskin paper in the VMS. The results dated the paper to 1404-48 with 95% confidence, but that could have been true of thousands of pages of old books and manuscripts that Voynich acquired and stockpiled in Florence in 1908.

The January 1912 date comes out of nowhere, and the only thing of interest I have seen is the proposed contact (correspondence?) between Voynich and Wellcome. A source for that would be interesting.

January because of the 13th January letter about the "13th century medical manuscript" that Williams identifies "probably" as the VM.

Indeed, the correspondence between Voynich and Wellcome's agent C.J.S. Thompson hasn't been studied or even mentioned before it seems in VM literature.

Under Booksellers correspondence WA/HMM/LI/Bks
Voynich M.W. Letters to and from Charles J.S. Thompson, 1909-21 WA/HMM/LI/Bks/73
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