The Modern Forgery Hypothesis

[asteckley]

But then, why choose Bacon when he knew the imagery he used was ~200 years later? Yet again, given his expertise with rare books, he knew he was going to expose his fraud. Why not choose, say, a lost work of Pico della Mirandola, from the right time period? It's weird, Voynich could not be both intelligent and expert and dumb and ignorant, I think.

I'm pretty sure Rich has covered that question and why there was great motivation to claim Bacon, and also to later give up on that idea. 
In any case, none of it is relevant to what I posted and the story posed for consideration. Perhaps you hit reply on the wrong post.