[split] Did the VM go straight from cerebellum to vellum?

[oshfdk]

Just has he got third-grade vellum,  possibly for free, he apparently recruited a third-rate scribe with near-zero drawing skills -- possibly for free, too.  Like, the scribe could have been a good friend who was an accountant, who was willing to help the old man achieve his dream.  Or his 13-year-old nephew who had learned to write with a quill, who agreed to do the job for a dime per page...

I'm not an expert, but I think an amateur with a quill would leave tons of ink blobs and ink drop from using wrong angles and force on the quill. I tried writing with a quill, it's not very hard, but accidents happen now and then. I don't see these accidents in the Voynich MS. However bizarre and irregular the writing in the manuscript is, it appears to me made by someone who certainly was proficient with the quill. Someone proficient with the quill, but not a professional scribe, could just be the author. Or assuming several hands (equally technically proficient but non professional) a team of authors? Ignoring MRT and the Chinese "broken phone" theory, is there any particular reason to believe that the author couldn't just write the manuscript with no external help?

By the way, one of the reasons I'm a bit cautious about 5 different hands is that I would expect greater variability in the proficiency and in the sloppiness, while to me all of them appear to be roughly the same. Judging by my school experience, in any random group of 5 people there will be one with significantly more beautiful and regular handwriting.