Speculative fraud hypothesis

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Lisa Fagin-Davis also said, in her recent UPenn seminar, that the idea of it being produced as a con to sell to a wealthy gullible buyer was non-credible.

Reading and writing in those times were at the foundation of scientific and social advancement. Manuscripts were prized possessions. For instance King Charles V of France was an avid collector, had acquired a huge library, supposedly over a thousand books, including many books on the secret sciences, astrology, prognostication, necromancy, and two copies of the notorious manuscript Ars Notoria.

Such books where at the heart of the new 'information age' of that time.

There was probably a healthy market for such works. It is conceivable that the possibility of fabricating some sort of bogus manuscript to sell on for a profit must surely have occurred to people. And this must surely be a possibility for the VMS.

So I must disagree with the manuscriptologist and say that it in fact is credible.