The Modern Forgery Hypothesis

[Jorge_Stolfi]

I believe we have one of his responses with the identification of the unknown alphabet and there's no mention of it looking like abbreviated Latin, albeit with no way to make any sense from the text

Marci's letter implies that Kircher wrote to him and/or Baresch in response to Baresh's letters, expressing the desire to get the whole book.  

However, while Baresch's letters to Kircher are in Kircher's collected correspondence, AFAIK we have not found any copies of the letters that Kircher sent to Marci or Baresch about the book they were referring to.  Nor any mention whatsoever by Kircher of Baresch, of the sample leaves that Baresch sent him, and of the book he received from Marci.  Nor any record of what he did with that book.  

(Unless some new discoveries have been made in the 20 years that I was hibernating...)

The general consensus seems to be that, sometime after Kircher's death, the VMS (or the hypothetical "book A") was in the Collegio Romano, where (most of?) Kircher's library had ended up.   But even this seems to be uncertain, given the questions that remain about how Voynich actually obtained the VMS ("A" and "B").

Do we know whether the VMS (the current one, or the hypothetical "book A") was part of the Kircher book dump at the Collegio?  Did the Collegio keep records of the provenance of their books?

All the best, --stolfi