Could the Voynich Author Be a "Ramanujan-style" Anomaly?

[rikforto]

Another thing I think we can assume to a degree is that those examples of manuscripts deemed most valuable and most worthy of preserving to the digital age are those which were higher quality, in part because of drawings. So not only do I agree we are overestimating the artistic ability in the surviving corpus, I would expect that represents a ceiling on the level of artistic talent we might infer for the pool of medieval manuscript artists

Given the estimated "only 5% of manuscripts survived" figure I see floating around, for every Voynich "dear God, why does that scorpion look like a lizard!?" horror there were 19 more artistic abominations that we will never get to see.