(23-08-2026, 06:02 PM)rikforto wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.My understanding is that a number of extremely normal and almost certainly genuine manuscripts would not hold up to the kind of scrutiny of the provenance history the VMS has received---gaps, exaggerations, and outright lies are normal in provenance accounts and it would be strange if the VMS's provenance was airtight and perfectly consistent given when it was surfaced and sold. I would go as far as to say that not all of Voynich's sales pitches have held up lend a certain credibility to his involvement because had he forged it, he might not have been so hapless describing it!

Now, I hasten to say this is not ironclad proof it is genuine by any means, but it does reframe the questions that are being asked about the provenance

• Voynich repeatedly and knowingly lied and mislead the public for the sake of $$$, 
  
• In which case that tells a lot about his character, 
  
• And therefore brings into question some other aspects of the VMS provenance,
  
• I.e., if he is totally fine with lying in such a manner, what else could he have lied about (letters, signatures, ...) ?