A name to attach to the origins of the manuscript

[Rafal]

And speaking of the authorship, I mostly agree with Lisa.
In case of old books either you know the author from the very beginning or often you are pretty hopeless.

In Poland where I live, the most important book describing our early history is of unknown authorship:
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As you may guess incredible effort was made trying to establish the author. And sorry, no luck  
And it was not some crazy alchemist sitting in his basement but most probably someone of high reputation, hired by the king.

The same thing is in Hungary: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.
They even made a monument to their author. This is how he looks like  


And lets be honest, Voynich Manuscript wasn't anything influencial when it was created. It became famous much later.

By the way, what do you think of this statistics?
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5 million manuscripts in 1400s? Possible or not?
And how many authors of them do we know?