Was Hartmann Schedel in possession of the VMS? I think so.

[Jorge_Stolfi]

I have a theory that the VMS was once in the possession of Hartmann Schedel, a 15th century humanist (and avid book collector), who is famous today because he wrote the Nuremberg Chronicle. ...  Biblia Pauperum .. What is different about the specific copy in Hartmann Schedel's collection, i.e., You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view., is the style of the illustrations, which appear to be drawn by a very similar set of hands as those of the VMS.

Indeed some details and the general style of the drawings are surprisingly similar.  But I don't think it is similar enough to imply the same artist.  I think it is more likely that the VMS Scribe got his "nymph 2.0" style (starting with f72r1, outer band, 01:00) from a book like that one.

The main similarity I see is the pose and the hair style, which is very much like that of the more pristine VMS nymphs like You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. (Bio), NE corner and f72v2 (Zodiac Virgo), inner band, 02:30:
       
Namely, there is only a finger-wide band of hair above the forehead, a bit more behind the head (on one side only), and a fist-size round lump of hair just above neck level (ditto).

In general, the faces of the woman (and men) in the manuscript are a close match to the VMS's illustrator's style

They are close, but those in the Bible are much better drawn.  But maybe because they are bigger? Nymphs in the VMS are mostly ~25 mm tall or thereabouts... 

And the dresses in you manuscript are much better than those in the VMS.

Notice the red cheeks and red lips, that are characteristic of the faces in the VMS.

I have seen several other manuscripts where the faces have that same red "makeup". Apparently it was part of the scribal bag of "graphical idioms", like cloud-bands, halos for saints, human figures pointing at details of drawings, etc.

Besides, those red details on the VMS are likely to be late additions, like the color paints.

Here's an example of soldier's chainmail that has the same motifs as the VMS "architecture"

That is a very simple motif, that must have been used in thousands of unrelated manuscripts and illustrations.

What about these Voynich-y animals?

Again, there is some resemblance, but it is not the same artist.  In fact, the sheep/goat and bull on the VMS are somewhat better than those.

Presumably the drawings of the Pauper's Bible were kept simple and unpainted (apart from the red ink details) in order to keep its cost down.  Thus there must have been many copies done by the same scribes and artists as that one owned by Hartmann Schedel.  His copy would be just only one of the few that survived.

An interesting sidenote to make is that a You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. by computing experts who implemetd a graph theoretical algorithm to search for possible early possessors of the VMS concluded that the most likely candidate to have it in their collection is... Hartmann Schedel.

I haven't looked at that study, but it is surely BS. (Trust me, I am an expert   ) 

(Back in the early 2010s, bitcoiners spent tons of effort trying to identify the mythical creator "Satoshi Nakamoto" by stylistic analysis of his forum posts.  But all those analyses failed, as they should.  Because they all assumed that SN would be one of the famous "cypherpunks" -- the valiant internet activists who had long dreamed of a payment method that would let them buy drugs buy chil bribe public offi evade taxes run financial scams support persecuted opposition in totalitarian countries without the governments being any wiser.)

All the best, --stolfi