Voynich Manuscript as a charlatan's prop

[Antonio García Jiménez]

There were certainly many quack doctors in the Middle Ages, but to think that the Voynich manuscript is the work of a charlatan seems absurd to me. If that were the case, what we would surely see is an image of the supposed doctor with a container of urine in his hand, or taking the pulse of a sick person in bed. And the image of the zodiac man would certainly be present. We see none of that in the Voynich.

I have a clear idea of the Voynich iconography and to me it looks more like a work made in a medieval university for the teaching of natural philosophy, which included natural magic.