How fast could a scribe write a Voynich like text?

[Jorge_Stolfi]

The Voynich is assuredly not of this quality. Going further, there is no line spacing, so one might infer it should be a 'quicker' copy, but the handwriting is not of 'shorthand' quality inasmuch as we can even guess at it, and the drawings need to be reproduced and text wrapped around them, so it can't be freely written in the way a quick copy would be. I would say a typical copy's time of production is a decent guess.

You can get an estimate yourself by printing one Herbal page at true scale (23.5 cm tall) to use as a draft, then reproducing the drawing and copying a few lines by hand with a sharp felt-tip pen, clocking the time it takes for each task.  Then you can do the math...

All the best, --stolfi