The claimed Voynich page

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[*]A buyer of antique furniture buys a wardrobe at an antiques fair in Narni.
The wardrobe contains a mix of old documents.

Fabrizio, and did you see that wardrobe and another documents? Do you know who was the last owner of the wardrobe?

I wonder if your seller wasn't building some legend 

The seller, whom I had known for years, was an elderly gentleman with a great knowledge of antique furniture and a restorer, who passed away years ago. The parchment was mixed in with what I thought was a collection of paper documents and parchments spanning the 16th to 18th centuries (notarial deeds, property transfers, inheritances, boundaries, various letters, many with seals of various types), and it seemed to me that the whole thing had been collected more for the seals than for the information on the sheets. I didn't ask to see the piece of furniture because I have absolutely no knowledge of antique furniture, ceramics, ivory, silver, or carpets.

I want to be clear that I am not questioning your acting in good faith, I'm just trying to understand the sequence of events here.

Did you see the collection of documents in person, or did he send you a list and/or photos of them?

Were you attracted to this particular item because you recognized the text as being in (roughly) the same script as the Voynich Mss.?

If so, even if you weren't interested in buying any of the other associated documents why didn't you ask for/make a list of them (dates, associated names & locations), or even ask for photos?

If not, when/how did you make the connection? After you made the connection did you contact the seller to try to obtain more information about the other documents?

I'm trying to wrap my head around what looks like a really surprising lack of interest in the context in which the page was found.