I am not convinced by the provenance history of the VMS

[anejati]

The forgery story contradicts itself, because Voynich was trying to pass it off as a 13th century manuscript by Roger Bacon (which would have been a priceless find), not a 15th century manuscript by an unknown author. If you want to believe the forgery story, you would have to assume he messed up the forgery, yet also somehow accidentally created something that looked exactly like a 15thc manuscript in terms of art style, clothing style, script style, and so on, and also that radiocarbon dating (which hadn't even been invented yet!) would match the same time period (within 20-30 years!) of the art & clothing style.

It's just incoherent nonsense, sorry. Yes Voynich was a "colorful" character, no the VMS isn't a forgery. Not by Voynich, not by anyone else. If it was a forgery, we'd know. Voynich was just another person who was completely perplexed by the VMS (like Marci, Baresch, and everyone else) and was trying to make sense of it.