Voynich Manuscript as a charlatan's prop

[rikforto]

My point, without getting into territory that will require us to switch to the thread dedicated to your theory, is that such a visual code is not at all incompatible with the visual code being meant to deceive. The fact that it is (allegedly) recognizable to someone with a medieval mindset means it could have been a good charlatan's prop. Not necessarily that it was, but that the pattern finding you are doing could conceivably be the point of the manuscript