15-07-2026, 07:46 AM
(15-07-2026, 06:40 AM)Jorge_Stolfi wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Objectively, it should have been very valuable to some scholars -- even if they could not read it right away, or if the attached Voynichese-Latin glossary was only two pages long.If this is indeed the case, then it was more likely that the book was sold not by the author, but by the second owner who made the notes on f17r, f66v, and f116v, as he received the manuscript directly from the author.
It seems unlikely to me that a person who has worked hard on a manuscript would agree to sell it himself, but who knows...
