The missing folios 59-64

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I should point out that there is no doubt that Fabrizio Salani is completely honest about this.
He bought the sheet at a second hand book market, and must have spent some money to
do the forensic tests. Where it came from remains a mystery, and the different root
makes no sense at all....

I looked at it again when I was taking a break to try to figure out if someone were working from a bad copy or simply misinterpreted the text.

The bench character is drawn wrong every time with only a couple of exceptions, and it seems unlikely that camera fuzziness or water damage would result in one specific glyph being wrong every time.

I can't account for the root at all other than that it might not have been available to view (something hiding it or if the copy were made from a snapshot, perhaps taken clandestinely, maybe the root was out of frame?) but it really looks like the root was taken from another manuscript tradition (Mattioli or Anicia or something along those lines) to sub in for what couldn't be seen.

The added folio number is the one thing that makes it look like a deliberate fraud rather than a bad copy. Somebody copying, even badly, wouldn't make up a number and add it.


It doesn't appear to be a re-interpretation, as with the fairly recent Voynich Dreams series. It looks more like a bad copy with the root and leaf added to fill in gaps.