26-01-2026, 09:34 PM
(This post was last modified: 26-01-2026, 09:35 PM by Mark Knowles.)
Hi Lisa,
What is wrong with the 90% illiteracy figure? As far as I tell from reading online this is either around 90% or 95%. What do you think is the correct figure?
I have long said that the manuscript was an amateur collaboration, not the product of a professional workshop and I haven't said otherwise recently. I have been lead to believe that the cost of the vellum and inks required to produce the manuscript would have been expensive, if you are telling me otherwise then that's news to me, I don't know the cost, but it goes against what I have been consistently told since I started looking into the Voynich. I didn't mention nobles or say there were only two strata in medieval society. Do you think the manuscript is written in cipher? And if not what do you think is going on with the unreadable script?
What is wrong with the 90% illiteracy figure? As far as I tell from reading online this is either around 90% or 95%. What do you think is the correct figure?
I have long said that the manuscript was an amateur collaboration, not the product of a professional workshop and I haven't said otherwise recently. I have been lead to believe that the cost of the vellum and inks required to produce the manuscript would have been expensive, if you are telling me otherwise then that's news to me, I don't know the cost, but it goes against what I have been consistently told since I started looking into the Voynich. I didn't mention nobles or say there were only two strata in medieval society. Do you think the manuscript is written in cipher? And if not what do you think is going on with the unreadable script?