How quickly did the VMS leave the possession of those who understood it?

[LisaFaginDavis]

By the late fifteenth century, when printing on paper was becoming more and more common throughout Europe, new binding structures appeared that were quicker and cheaper, like limp vellum. However, the style of the limp vellum bindings that developed in the late 15th century were quite different from what we see on the Voynich Manuscript today. In the 15th and 16th century, limp vellum bindings were attached by a complicated and decorative stitching on the outside of the spine and used a different sewing structure entirely than the way the quires are attached to each other in the VMS. The sewing structure of the manuscript is 15th century, but the covers and their attachment to the manuscript are 19th century. 

The sewing structure is fifteenth century - three sewing stations of double-cords with the extended end band structure that developed in the fifteenth century.

That is when the sewing structure was developed,  But when was it abandoned, and why?  Are those dates the same for all binders in all of Europe?

All the best, --stolfi