The Modern Forgery Hypothesis

[Jorge_Stolfi]

I include below transcriptions (there may be some typos) of a few letters exchanged between Voynich (in the US) and his London staff Herbert Garland.

So let me see whether I got this right... The letters indicate that Voynich in 1920 was very interested in a certain "Tepenecz" but did not know yet that he was Sinapius, which he knew as a member of Rudolf's court.

So, is this a hint that he had already been able to read Tepencz's signature on f1r, but did not know who he was?  And therefore that the signature is legit?

Do we know the date when he took that photograph of  f1r, before smearing it with chemicals?

He still could have become interested in "Tepenecz" for some other reason, connected or not to the VMS.  Then forged his signature only after learning that he was Sinapius.  But admittedly this makes the theory quite a bit less likely.

All the best, --stolfi