The Modern Forgery Hypothesis

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1) I believe the "resources needed" came from You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view., a vast repository of over 500,000 items, from scrap to treasures.
2) I do not think it would take all that great an ability at calligraphy to recreate the Voynich characters, or, for that matter, better ones, as I and others have done experiments in trying to do so, and seen many manage it- and anyway, in 1910, most educated people were well versed in using pens and quills. Virtually everyone wrote with them! It was part of every child's schooling, and from a young age.
3) Yes the illustrations are bad, I agree, many agree, but I would ask "Why is that a sign of genuine"? In any case, I think the abilities and style of the Voynich illustrations, while bad, do fit the look and methods of Voynich's pretty darned well:

4) "Why would he leave out all references to popular esoteric knowlede?" Not sure what you mean here? First of all, I and others do see possible references to many fields of "esoteric knowledge", such as Astrology, astronomy, magic wheels, possible tincture baths and cures, and much more. Very little abjectly drawn alchemical imagery, but some, perhaps. And so much more, whether you consider the Voynich genuine or not. But maybe I misunderstood you?

5) "Seriously, the level of genius and stupidity required not to add a single hieroglygh precludes any possibility of this being a forgery from 1910." I admit you've stumped me with this one, and maybe it is because I (again?) misunderstood, sorry. But first of all, "Why?" WOULD a forger, in 1910, choose to include hieroglyphics a book which was intended to look 15th or 17th century, and possibly as an herbal or medicinal? Or maybe you don't mean "Egyptian hieroglyphs"? But on the contrary, I think it would have been a very poor choice to include them, in this case, if that is what you meant.

Rich

In response to your "Modern Voynich Myths", individually you make good arguments for the forgery being possible.  However the high number of these issues make it more and more unlikely to be forged.  There is still no proof that it is a forgery even if there is evidence that Voynich lied about it's origin.  There's no 'smoking gun'.

Also the entire claim seems self contradictory

• he was trying to sell the VM as a manuscript with a connection to Bacon in the 13th century, forged it himself but never thought to include anything that directly ties it to Bacon or features to place it in the 13th century.  He even includes features that make the VM seem more recent, not older like the crossbow on Sagittarius.
  
• as he wrote it he included a huge number of features, showing extensive knowledge of a very niche part of the medieval period with a very complex internal structure, tying it to the 15th c but (in your claim) one day forgot himself and added a microscope, an armadillo, sunflower, cells, and a spiral galaxy.
  
• in 1910 Egyptology was at a height in popularity, a hieroglyph would increase its value to undiscerning buyers.  No overt religious, occult, mystical symbols.  While forging he didn't think to add anything to excite any specific group that he wished to sell to. Except maybe the wealthy armadillo enthusiasts
  
• he chooses to invent - astrology information from an imaginary astrologer who hates using rulers - it simply stands out from other manuscripts of the period as poor illustration quality.
  

• granted the penmanship is only decent, but he decided to fast track the color and scribble it in - unlike the quality of practically every other medieval manuscript.  Coloring within the lines is a skill anyone would have and most medieval manuscripts are very precise with coloring as books were very expensive to create in the 13th century.  It would be a certain artistic choice to badly color this.  It's really hard to reconcile deliberately making a forgery bad, yet to sell for a high price.  Wouldn't this be a red flag to investors?
  
• he wrote it for botanists who like low quality imaginary plants, astrologers who hate constellations, herbalists who hate identifiable herbs, medievalists who can't read the text, 13th century works collectors who prefer 15th century detail
  
• he has a vast repository of 500,000 some treasures, but instead of copying real plants, spends his time inventing new ones.
  
• he spent ages designing creative unique layouts and an indecipherable code and then spent 15 minutes per page creating it.  All that work, then to put no effort to make it look like it fits along other manuscripts of the time
  
• forge the VM.  But also, the plan is to also forge a lot of documents from different eras to support the sale of the forged manuscript.
  
• risk his reputation selling a forgery while holding repository of 500,000 documents with some treasures.
  

 
 A forgery would be made to fit within existing collections.  Such an obscure, ugly, and poor quality document could not possibly serve this purpose.