Would a NEW Voynich Manuscript be valuable?

[RobGea]

1) Would they consider it valuable?
  --one man's trash is another man's treasure.
  --"The value is always in the eye of the beholder. What is worthless to one person may be very important to someone else." ― Peter Ackroyd

  --The Rarity Fallacy: Why Scarcity Doesn’t Always Equal Value --
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2) Were there even collectors, as we understand it today, in the 1400s?
  --Yes, book collecting has been around since at least Roman times
  According to Arthur H. Minters,
      the "private collecting of books was a fashion indulged in by many Romans, including Cicero and Atticus"

The Villa of the Papyri, Herculaneum. (private collection, unknown collector)
the only surviving library from the Graeco-Roman world that exists in its entirety. It contained over 1,800 papyrus scrolls.

Richard de Bury (24 January 1287 – 14 April 1345),
He was a patron of learning and one of the first English collectors of books.

Philip III (31 July 1396 – 15 June 1467), also known as Philip the Good  was Duke of Burgundy from 1419 until his death in 1467.
Philip the Good brought together a collection of  "about six hundred manuscripts in his possession at the height of his reign", which was the largest private collection of his day.

Jean Grolier de Servières, viscount d'Aguisy (c. 1489/90 – 22 October 1565) was Treasurer-General of France and a famous bibliophile.

John Dee (13 July 1527 – December 1608 or March 1609)
As an antiquarian, he had one of the largest libraries in England at the time.

3) Medieval price of Vellum  -- definitely deserves its own thread, there are all sorts of values floating around.