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[asteckley]

Williams is obviously just using the word "paper" instead of "vellum". He was probably unfamiliar with the word "vellum" and so thought "paper" was a clearer and simpler word to use for most readers. That is, for most of us, an unnecesary --and even misleading-- simplification.  Most of us equate "paper" with "wood-pulp paper", but in a more general and colloquial sense, it may be used to refer to any similar writing material.

Williams' Voynich work is certainly amatuerish and ill-informed, and on the topic of the Voynich MS, it's essentially useless. So there are a lot of substantive flaws in his work to criticize; his use of the word "paper" is probably not one of them.