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From my understanding material like vellum could be scarce and and as such someone could have reused a piece of vellum simply out of necessity with no motive to

by Teever 6y ago

From my understanding material like vellum could be scarce and and as such someone could have reused a piece of vellum simply out of necessity with no motive to deceive.

Nursie 6y ago
Sure, they could have - it was not cheap or easy to come by, but until there's a particular reason to think that happened in this case, it seems to be speculation.
- Teever 6y ago
  Everything about the voynicn manuscript is speculation. That is what makes it so fascinating for people.
  - Nursie 6y ago
    While that's true "It was a hoax because <vanishingly unlikely thing>" kinda kills the fascination aspect for me. It's a bit of a downer.
matthewdgreen 6y ago
It seems like a whole lot of material, all of which came from the same time period. Would have been a lucky find to find essentially a whole book's worth of the stuff in one place.
mumblemumble 6y ago
This is true, but scholars can tell if a manuscript is a palimpsest, and they seem to be agreed that Voynich is not one.