Elephant in the Room Solution Considerations
(02-02-2026, 02:57 AM)MHTamdgidi_(Behrooz) wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.The University of Vienna was established in 1365, and given her long years of legal battles, she must have had a strong legal team to leave behind her legacy and the manuscript, instructing them (with payments received in advance), to put her legacy manuscript to a durable vellum manuscript, at a time her enemies had left the scene, several decades later (early 1400s). I think the first page of the Voynich manuscript is a statement of the legal obligations that were being fulfilled on her behalf posthumously.

(02-02-2026, 02:57 AM)MHTamdgidi_(Behrooz) wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view....I think Putsch and the scribes working for him may have had a lot to do with the VM vellum production in early 1400s. He was a Bishop at the service of Friedrich IV, who basically had inherited Margaret’s legacy, and had a team of scribes under his command.

This seems to contrast the low cost materials used in producing the manuscript. Wouldn't it be disgraceful for a Bishop and his team of scribes to use low quality vellum for the legacy work of his late patron?

E.g., quoting from Lisa Fagin Davis from You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.: 
(27-01-2026, 01:56 PM)LisaFaginDavis wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.All we can really do is speak in relative terms. The VMS parchment is absolutely very low quality when compared to the fine vellum of, say, a thirteenth-century Paris Bible or the early fifteenth-century Très Riches Heures. That observation is completely in line with the quality of the artwork and of the inks and pigments, which are of the homemade variety without the high-cost minerals like lapis or malachite found in a high-end luxury production. In fact, I would have been stunned if the McCrone report had reported finding lapis or malachite in the blue or green, as that would have been at odds with quality of the parchment and artwork. As it stands, all of the forensic results are consistent with a manuscript produced for relatively low "cost" or made with homemade materials.
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RE: Elephant in the Room Solution Considerations - by oshfdk - 02-02-2026, 09:16 AM

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