The Modern Forgery Hypothesis

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He would need a master callirapher, but then choose an artist with Picasso levels of creativity and instruct them to illustrate like a gradeshcooler. 

This part I find no strange at all. For example, if I wanted to forge a medieval manuscript and sell it for $1,200,000 in today's money (as far as I understand, that was roughly the amount Voynich aimed for) the first thing I will have to make sure is that the number of people involved in the project directly or indirectly was as small as possible. I won't "choose an artist" and then risk this artist spilling the beans, I would probably have to resort to making the drawings myself or using some accomplice very close to me. Actually, the final result would look not very much unlike the Voynich Manuscript, I can write reasonably well, but my drawing skills are very poor.