Are there any VMS-type hoaxes?

[Jorge_Stolfi]

So there you go: even the book I thought was a good example of a hoax, may just have been a parody intended to be understood as a parody.

I am satisfied that Edward Kelley's You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. (79 pages) was a fraud that he created to dupe John Dee.  It should not be confused with the anonymous You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. that Dee was obsessed with, although the description of Liber Logaeth suggests that the latter was intentionally made to resemble the former, with 49x49 tables instead of 36x36.

However it is only 1/3 the size of the VMS, and its style seems to be vastly different.

The "Alchemists' Herbal" seems to be a fraud too, created and copied to feed the demand for herbals listing rare and exotic plants.   It could perhaps be a parody, but its size and the number of extant copies makes me doubt that possibility. 

I understand "hoax" in two ways when it comes to Voynich Manuscript"

1) VM seems to be a medieval manuscript but was created much later by Edward Kelley, Athanasius Kircher or Wilfried Voynich.

2) VM is a real, medieval object but also a medieval swindle.

I see another possibility:

3) The VM is a real non-fraudulent medieval book, but it was doctored in later times in order to pass it off as some other, more valuable book.

Specifically, I think that there is a nonzero probability that Wilfrid attached Marci's letter,  removed some pages, and falsified Jacobus's "signature" on You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. in order to sell the VMS as a Bacon original (which could have added 2-3 zeros to the price.)   

But maybe Widemann did that before selling the book to Rudolf.

All the best, --stolfi

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