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• Would a NEW Voynich Manuscript be valuable?

  Rafal > 2 hours ago

  I hope I am posting it in the right forum.
  
  We are used to think about Voynich Manuscript as something valuable, even very valuable.
  
  Emperor Rudolph presumably paid a nice sum for it, possibly beliving it was a lost work of Roger Bacon.
  Later Wilfrid Voynich himself believed he will be able to sell it for big money.
  
  But let's take the mainstream view that VM was made in the 1400s. Now imagine some people in the 1400s can see the shiny and new Voynich Manuscript.
  
  Would they consider it valuable? What would the think?
  
  It wouldn't be for them any ancient artifact, antiquity or relic. They would probably realize that it is new.
  And they would see bad pictures and the writing impossible to understand.
  
  The cleverest of them would probably know that there are many writing systems in the world. Arabs have their writing, Greeks have another one, Jews yet another one and so on. And somewhere far, far away live people who have black skin, a language impossible to pronounce and possibly yet another writing.
  
  I would say they wouldn't really so excited by unknown writing because it would be quite natural for them that there are strange things that they don't understand.
  And if it seemed a work of pagan or a sorcerer, some people possibly would feel a strong desire to burn it 
  
  So would anyone be willing to pay a big money for the new VM in the 1400s?
  Were there even collectors, as we understand it today, in the 1400s?
  
  I am considering an option of VM being a fake made for selling it to a rich collector but don't I know the reality of 1400s enough to say if it is possible.
  
  How do you think?

• RE: Would a NEW Voynich Manuscript be valuable?

  bi3mw > 47 minutes ago

  (2 hours ago)Rafal Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Were there even collectors, as we understand it today, in the 1400s?

  
  These were mainly found among the upper classes. The Bibliotheca Corviniana, for example, is a world-famous book collection belonging to the Hungarian king Matthias Corvinus (1443–1490). It was one of the largest and most valuable libraries of its time. Clergymen also collected books for monastery libraries within the limits of their means, in some cases over centuries (e.g., the Vatican Library and the Abbey Library of St. Gallen). Unfortunately, however, the VMS is an “ugly duckling” and not a magnificent volume, even for contemporaries. It was therefore more of a niche market item and not something for an avid book collector who valued high quality.

• RE: Would a NEW Voynich Manuscript be valuable?

  Rafal > 7 minutes ago

  And maybe another question.
  
  I am totally lost when it comes to the medieval prices of vellum.
  
  I could see in several sources that it was very expensive - a manuscript cost was about one year wages of a skilled craftsman. Or something like a luxury car today.
  
  But I am not sure about it and even on these forums I have seen doubts abour such high price of the vellum.
  
  Do we have some consensus? Was it really that expensive or are we not sure?
  
  Because if it was very expensive one thing doesn't make sense. You have very expensive material, yet you make very ameteurish art on it. If you have cash for vellum, then you should have it for good artists as well.
  
  Is it yet another paradox about VM?
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