What would you NOT LIKE to be the Voynich Manuscripts?

[asteckley]

All Bacon experts he consulted must have told him "no way, absolutely not".  

This is not what happened, at all! In reality he found a lot of support from highly respectable people in the book and library world.

Rene, could you explain where there is evidence that Wilfrid received a lot of support from highly respectable people?

I have little to no expertise regarding Bacon’s work, but my understanding has always been that no plausible evidence was ever offered, by Wilfrid or anyone else, to connect the manuscript to Roger Bacon. As far as I know, the claim rested mainly on a presumed date of origin, for which there was no real evidence (and which of course later proved to be incorrect), and on the fact that the manuscript appeared to involve some kind of encryption. But encryption was hardly a feature that would point specifically to Bacon.
In fact, my understanding is that the manuscript seemed to argue against a Bacon attribution, since it is visibly unlike Bacon’s known work.

Given that, I find it hard to believe that any serious scholar, when faced with Wilfrid’s claim that the manuscript was by Bacon, would not have said something like “no way, absolutely not.” It seems even harder to believe that they would have supported the claim.