[Blog Post] The Pattern of the Wheel on 57v

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I think that a good argument can be made that there is a single 'brain' behind this MS, which one can consider a single creator or author. 
The 2022 conference paper of Elona Dunkin and Klaus Schmeh even put this in a historical perspective.

And what is this argument? I assume the paper is this one: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.

In there I have only found the following relevant passage:

"75 books on our list were created by single authors, eight of whom were female. All encrypted books that were provably written by women turn out to be diaries. For 44 works in our collection, the number of authors is not known to us. We are not aware of any encrypted book that was provably created by more than one person. As far as we can tell, even the illustrated books in our collection were not made by a writer cooperating with an artist, but by one individual acting as both. All this clearly suggests that the Voynich Manuscript was created by a single mind, too. We know, however, that other research has come to a different result..."

First of all, the number of authors is not known for 59% (edit: I misread the statistics, the actual percentage is lower) of the sample set, so even as an extrapolation the argument is not very good.

But generally, this is a variation of "other <...> were made in a certain way, hence the Voynich MS probably was made in the same way", which can be a good argument, for example, for some physical properties of the book, because there are quite a few other manuscripts that are physically similar. But as far as the text and images go, for what I know, the Voynich MS has a very strange combination of features, so it's not clear if there is any use comparing it with [edit: the averaged features of] other contemporary manuscripts.