New video: "Is the Voynich Manuscript fake?"

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Simply titanium by itself is not suspicious.
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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.

Thanks, Rene, that was really helpful. I had been wondering why, if titanium is significant, it would be Rich flagging this rather than academics/experts in this area.

I didn't know - or have maybe forgotten - that Sidney Reilly "took out a book on making medieval inks."   What book was this?  

A google search brings up this You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view., which says "Readers' tickets for his shadowy friend, Sidney Reilly, show that among the books that the "Ace of Spies" studied at the British Museum library was Some Observations On Ancient Inks."

There is You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. by Charles Blagden from 1787 but I'm not sure that it can be it.  It is a short essay of about seven pages rather than a book, and its actual title is "Some Observations on ancient Inks with the proposal of a new Method of recovering the Legibility of decayed Writings", with suggestions on recovering faded text taking up more than half of the work.