[Blog Post] Some conclusions drawn from twelve years of studying the Voynich manuscript.

[Fabrizio Salani]

Let's imagine a doctor of the time, an apothecary, a surgeon "cerusico", an alchemist, a herbalist, or a team of these, traveling the known world and skilled in their craft, but not in drawing. They write the text with care and precision but not the drawings, for which they lack the talent. They write the manuscript as a sort of portable, traveling diary (given its size), with scattered pages, compiled at different times, in different places, with different knowledge, experiences, and intuitions. Obviously not a commissioned book. Yes, I'm working from my imagination.