Voynich Manuscript as a charlatan's prop

[rikforto]

...to me it looks more like a work made in a medieval university for the teaching of natural philosophy, which included natural magic.

Looking like this, however, is evidence that it could have functioned as an effective fraud, at least against people who agreed with you.

I had not previously considered this dimension of the "looks like" problem, but any "looks like" assertion can be interpreted prima facia as evidence of fraud. It isn't necessarily fraudulent because it looks like something, but it is an immediate possibility.