New video: "Is the Voynich Manuscript fake?"

[MarcoP]

Here is Panofsky's actual statement, as related in the Mary D'Imperio book, "Were it not for the sunflower which, if correctly identified, would date the manuscript after 1492, I should have thought that it was executed a little earlier, say, about 1470. However, since the style of the drawings is fairly provincial, a somewhat later date, even the first years of the sixteenth century, would not seem to be excluded. I should not go lower than ca. 1510-1520 because no influence of the Italian Renaissance style is evident."

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he STILL would not go earlier than 1510.

As I read the passage, Panofsky is using "low" in the art historical sense of "late," as in the Low Middle Ages being later than the High Middle Ages. See also entry #20 for American English in You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.:

20.  relatively recent a manuscript of a low date
   

Panofsky suggests that the manuscript appears to date from about 1470 (if one disregards the sunflower), but it may originate from a provincial area that adopted stylistic changes a few decades later: therefore it cannot be excluded that it is as late as the first years of the 16th century. However, it cannot date later than 1510–1520, as by then the Italian Renaissance had spread widely, and the manuscript shows no trace of a Renaissance influence.