New video: "Is the Voynich Manuscript fake?"

[ReneZ]

What FORM was the "titanium compound" in? Anatase smooth crystals (ghosts of the Vinland Map fiasco!)? Which "compound" was it?

I didn't know titanium wasn't used in the Middle Ages, that's interesting!

It is perhaps worth going into this a bit more.
It is a very specific crystalline compound of titanium that has been used in modern white paint.
This is called 'anastase titanium dioxide'.
Simply titanium by itself is not suspicious.

The anastase dioxide was found in the ink of the Vinland map, and it does not belong there.
This discovery was made by McCrone already in 1973. This became a topic of some controversy, and McCrone are obviously intimately familiar with this issue.

So, when the same McCrone company investigates the Voynich MS in 2009, finds titanium and does not consider it an issue, we can be pretty damn sure that it was NOT anastase titanium dioxide that they found.

But there is more. Even though the anastase was found in the Vinland map already decades ago, it was never convincing proof by itself that the MS was fake. Only small amounts were found, and it could not be shown that these were not the result of some later pollution.
That was changed more recently, when it was found throughout the drawing and writing ink, and could even be linked to a specific source in Norway in 1923.

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