24-08-2026, 08:23 AM
(This post was last modified: 24-08-2026, 10:20 AM by JustAnotherTheory.)
(24-08-2026, 04:04 AM)anejati wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.The forgery story contradicts itself, because Voynich was trying to pass it off as a 13th century manuscript by Roger Bacon (which would have been a priceless find), not a 15th century manuscript by an unknown author
I doubt he could tell apart a 13th centry blank parchment from a 15th century one, with any degree of certainty. After all, he wasn't a human radiocarbon machine.
So even if he did find medieval-looking blank parchment, and wrote the VMS on it, he would have no reliable way of telling what era it came from.
As for the Baresch/Kircher correspondences, as I've highlighted earlier, we don't know if they were actually talking about the VMS. They mention "alchemical symbols" (of which there are none in the VMS) and do not mention any of the special characteristics, like the 300+ nudes, tubes, etc...
OK, maybe it wasn't "cool" to write about nudes back then, but that still doesn't prove that they were indeed talking about the VMS.