The Poggio scenario has been around for years.
What we are given is an internally-consistent narrative, and one consistent with various other wished-for outcomes.
What I've yet to see is anything remotely relevant to our understanding of the content in a single folio. Basically we end up (as has happened time out of mind) with
A. the manuscript.
B. the story.
Then you get a third phase where people try to impose the story onto the manuscript.
Here are some basic questions: how many languages did Poggio Bracciolini read, write and/or speak (anyone can copy a Greek text).
Have we any evidence that Poggio ever wrote texts that were intended to be incomprehensible?
Given the episodes which I reported, where Poggio was unable to learn anything about exotic plants because he couldn't find anyone with the necessary technical vocabulary - what explanation is offered for the exotics in the Voynich botanical folios?
Poggio basically made his pocket money by taking advantage of his job as papal secretary to raid monastic libraries for 'classics' which he then copied and sold for a goodly amount to the Italian literati, who were mad for them.
He always made neat, tidy, very legible copies... if anyone wants to claim he made the Voynich manuscript, they'll have to produce evidence that he copied, or invented, a script like the Voynich script.
Otherwise, it is all just another historical novel without any power to explain any of the hundred details in the imagery (alone) which deny the scenario.
Sorry.
What we are given is an internally-consistent narrative, and one consistent with various other wished-for outcomes.
What I've yet to see is anything remotely relevant to our understanding of the content in a single folio. Basically we end up (as has happened time out of mind) with
A. the manuscript.
B. the story.
Then you get a third phase where people try to impose the story onto the manuscript.
Here are some basic questions: how many languages did Poggio Bracciolini read, write and/or speak (anyone can copy a Greek text).
Have we any evidence that Poggio ever wrote texts that were intended to be incomprehensible?
Given the episodes which I reported, where Poggio was unable to learn anything about exotic plants because he couldn't find anyone with the necessary technical vocabulary - what explanation is offered for the exotics in the Voynich botanical folios?
Poggio basically made his pocket money by taking advantage of his job as papal secretary to raid monastic libraries for 'classics' which he then copied and sold for a goodly amount to the Italian literati, who were mad for them.
He always made neat, tidy, very legible copies... if anyone wants to claim he made the Voynich manuscript, they'll have to produce evidence that he copied, or invented, a script like the Voynich script.
Otherwise, it is all just another historical novel without any power to explain any of the hundred details in the imagery (alone) which deny the scenario.
Sorry.