VMs: Re: Personal Guess

["PK#01" <pklist01@xxxxxxxxx>]

When: between 1500 and 1600
Where: Europe, probably in the area between Rome, Avignon, Munich and Prague
Who: An unknown and unknowable author

What:
A personal fascination / craziness or
A fake document meant to impress credulous clients (one of Nick's
hypothesies)

And:
Most probably there is no translation since both text and pictures are
gibberish, but it is quite possible to make a good "profile" of the author
by:
- studying the conscious / unconscious pointers that he has left for us
(just like in criminal profiling)
- searching for historical parallels for this kind of publication
- doing more research into related historical areas like crypto, herbals
etc.

That's why I just keep on reading related books and don't try to attack the
VMS directly. I don't have the feeling the solution will come from there.
I've given up on decryption. But I believe in studying the pages in minute
detail, looking for possible clues and pointers.

Then there is the slight chance that another page in Voynichese will be
found in some remote library and we may be able to pinpoint the author more
precisely. The horrible thought is that such a page may have been discovered
already but not recognized as such.

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