The Modern Forgery Hypothesis

[Mark Knowles]

- Mark Knowles: It's about separating the date of the parchment / vellum from the date of the contents written onto it. We know the physical material the contents are written on, is genuine from the early 15th century. But that does not automatically apply to the contents written onto it.

To claim that Voynich obtained all that quanity of unused vellum from the early 15th century cut into the range of sizes he required is unlikely and from his knowledge unnecessary to make a convincing forgery prior to the invention of carbon dating.