Are there any VMS-type hoaxes?

[Rafal]

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.

I would agree it is very possible, no matter what is the origin of the book.

In my opinion the connection of Voynich Manuscript to Bacon may come from Dee and Kelley. They were English just like Bacon, right. So they could claim to Rudolf that they found it at some English monastery while they actually got it from Widemann.

And they would be very able to do it. Kelley was a very shady man and Dee is a fine example that you can be both intelligent and educated and dumb and naive at the same time. If Dee heard from Kelley that angels told him it was Bacon then he would just believe and support it.

The hoax could also happen at Kircher stage. Maybe not everyone here knows but Kircher is also accused of a hoax - fabricating a piece of music and presenting it as an ancient Greek composition. See "Pindar's Ode": You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.

And then we have Willfried Voynich. He and Jesuits consciously broke the law - mhe purchased a book that legally belonged to the Italian state. Then Voynich lied several times about the book. He is another shady person in the manuscript history.

VM actually has a great history, not like some "boring" prayer book that was created in some convent 700 years ago and stayed there since then