(28-11-2025, 07:44 PM)Rafal wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.I believe that creating Voynich Manuscript required contact with many another books.
It has been shown in other threads that some pictures are inspired by pictures from another works.
So our hypothetical prisoner had either photographic memory or access to expensive manuscripts.
My impression was that the situation is exactly the opposite: the images in the MS somewhat mimic the general composition and inventory of images from other manuscripts, but the details are all different. So, it's more like the total absence of photographic memory and total lack of access to other manuscripts (edit: at the time when the Voynich MS was being created).
Giving an analogy, I probably can try drawing characters from Simpsons or scenes from Sistine Chapel or Mona Lisa by memory, and I will get some general resemblance but with total mix up of particular details - quite like what happens in the Voynich MS.