Voynich buys some Jesuit manuscripts

[LisaFaginDavis]

I agree with Rene here - the evidence suggests not that the Jesuits were intentionally hiding the VMS but that they simply weren't very interested in it. The vast majority of pre-modern libraries don't have manuscript catalogues, or if they do, they aren't nearly detailed enough to allow for positive affiliation of a particular entry with a particular manuscript. The VMS is not at all exceptional in that regard.

By the same token, Voynich was not at all unusual in obfuscating the source of the VMS or any other manuscript. It was not at all uncommon for dealers during that period to refuse to say where they had acquired something.

In other words, it's not at all surprising that no one has found reference to the VMS in the Jesuit library and it is not all surprising that Voynich wasn't honest about where he got it.