10-10-2025, 12:36 AM
(09-10-2025, 02:19 PM)Jorge_Stolfi wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Sure. I myself am a lot more skeptical of expert opinions in general, but that is just me...
Nothing wrong with that, in general, but one also has to be specific. Experts are usually explicit about their confidence, and rarely (essentially never) indulge in speculation.
I remember the first time I had a chance to talk with a MS librarian about the Voynich MS writing, specifically the marginalia. This was in the Strahov monastery library, but not the time that we were there.
While he was looking at the top of f116v, I mentioned that someone had the theory that the book was written by Jacobus de Tepenec. He immediately straightened, looked at me and said: "no way".
That was a confident statement.
The same type of confidence was present in the case discussed here.