The Modern Forgery Hypothesis

[Jorge_Stolfi]

It has many illustrations for which the best comparisons are to items anachronistic to it, including post-Columbian plants

The alleged identifications of almost all the plants, are just hallucinations by people who have decided that the plants must be real and well-drawn.  Actually there are only 2-3 plants that can be identified with some certainty, and they occur all over the world.

animals, devices, styles, possible microscopic cells and diatoms

Those interpretations of the figures either represent things that are compatible with the 1400s date, or things that we cannot identify.  The identifications above, again, are hallucinations.

anatomy as illustrated in Grey's

 

The anatomical drawings are quite crude. Maybe they were not common in Europe at the time, but probably there are better examples in Arabic or other non-European medical books.

women with stars on strings

What is wrong with those?

"pox leber"

 

Those writings are almost surely later additions.

It looks very "fresh" and "bright"

Huh?  On the contrary, it is in a very sorry state compared to some other manuscripts from the time.  Lots of wear, water damage, wormholes, stains...

Again, I think it is extremely unlikely that the VMS is a forgery or hoax, by Voynich or by someone well after 1400.  I think that there is strong evidence and arguments against that theory.

On the other hand, I still admit the possibility that Voynich tampered with the evidence about the history of the VMS in the 1600s, such as Marci's letter and Jacobus's signature.  I don't think that is likely either, but I don't see any strong evidence against this theory.

All the best, --stolfi