The Modern Forgery Hypothesis

[asteckley]

I can't imagine that Voynich, once he decided to forge a "Bacon Lost Book", or even just any valuable manuscript, would end up creating something like the VMS.  Something that has many obscure properties of natural languages, but in other ways it is so unlike any known language.  Which has hundreds of illustrations, but not one that would entice a buyer to write a million dollar check.

It would be like the forger of the Vinland map, instead of forging a pre-Columbian map of the Americas, had forged a 13th century floor plan of a house with 217 bathrooms and no kitchen, with a windmill in the cellar and a moat with portcullis around the pangolins's cage in the second floor...

Yet Baresch was apparently so intrigued with this particular floor plan, that he wouldn't risk letting it out of his sight since he thought it contained exotic medical knowledge.