New video: "Is the Voynich Manuscript fake?"

[Koen G]

Finally, let's not forget the infamous figure (estimate) of 10% : the number of manuscripts that have survived.

Regarding the issue of Voynich imagery precedents, we are only interested in illuminated manuscripts. What percentage of those have been digitized? And how many of those have come to our attention?

Take the Balneis as an example. There's certainly research out there cataloguing all the extant Balneis MSS. Is such an overview reliable? Can we assume that researchers' cumulative efforts have unearthed almost all of the remaining copies? In that case, we can basically assume that we have access to all of our remaining Balneis imagery, and that its usefulness for the VM stops at the comparisons we currently have. (Some of which I find very impressive). Maybe there are a few undigitized or even unnoticed ones, but probably not many.

But how about Zodiac sequences from the regions we are interested in? I wouldn't be surprised if hundreds of them are still hiding in smaller repositories, especially if we add other types of illustrations (works of the months, calendars...). If that is the case, I'd expect some relevant ones to be among those, and possibly even a crucial missing link.