The Modern Forgery Hypothesis

[ReneZ]

And I believe (though I can't speak for him) that that is why Rich referred to the "1420 Genuine European Cipher Herbal" not being able to withstand criticism -- because that appears to be the motivation for the misapplication of the, otherwise, laudable rule.

I could, but will not continue this direction :-)

There are relevant things to say about the arguments related to the Marci letter being a fake or not, but it is not clear to me that there is great interest in this from the general readership here.