Is the Voynich Manuscript FAKE? Let's examine the evidence.

00:00 Intro
01:46 Is the text fake?
04:39 Did the makers have bad intentions?
05:57 Is the manuscript itself fake?
08:37 How do you date a manuscript? Internal dates.
09:20 Provenance
09:59 Radiocarbon dating
11:42 Inks and Pigments
14:19 Fashion
19:21 Handwriting
22:55 Professional opinion
27:54 Summary of the Evidence
29:09 The Unlikely Tale of Wilfrid V. and Johnny D., Master Forgers.
30:35 Wilfrid was Clueless
31:17 Outro, Thanks & please Subscribe


Sources:

D'Imperio, M.E. (1978). The Voynich Manuscript: An elegant enigma.

Rudolph II: https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/rup...

Quote about Codex Seraphianus from Jeff Stanley (2010). "To Read Images Not Words: Computer-Aided Analysis of the Handwriting in the Codex Seraphinianus (MSc dissertation)". North Carolina State University at Raleigh. p.10.

Background on Rudolf's Rabanus Maurus MS by Rene Zandbergen: https://www.voynich.nu/misc/misc_03.html

The source for the carbon dating information is a letter sent by Greg Hodgins D. Phil., Assistant Research Scientist, NSF-Arizona AMS Laboratory to Yale University Library dated 17 February 2009. PDF here: https://voynich.net/files/Voynich%20R...

McCrone's analysis of inks and pigments (2009): https://beinecke.library.yale.edu/sit...

Counts of people in the MS: https://www.voynich.ninja/thread-2455...

Dagging: https://fashionhistory.fitnyc.edu/dag...

Devonshire Hunting Tapestries: https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O6...

Sleeve research: https://herculeaf.wordpress.com/2018/...

Rich SantaColoma blog: https://proto57.wordpress.com/2023/01...

Letter from Ethel Voynich: https://collections.library.yale.edu/...

Arnold Hunt. Foreign dealers in the English trade.
Lehmann-Haupt background: https://www.monumentsmenandwomenfnd.o...
https://merton.org/Research/Correspon...

Images:

https://www.voynich.nu/gallery2.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kufic/
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
Pseudo-Hebrew in drawing: Unknown Austrian artist Annunciation, ca. 1430. Vienna, Albertina, inv. nr. 25447. See https://www.garyschwartzarthistorian....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triumph...)
Sound Effects from Pixabay
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
Rabanus MS: https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_De...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_De...
Wilfrid Voynich foto Mary Evans, from https://historia.nationalgeographic.c...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilfrid...
https://proto57.wordpress.com/2016/03...
Charter 1: Bistumsarchiv Münster, Domarchiv U 072, in: Monasterium.net, URL /mom/DE-BAM/Domarchiv/U20072/charter, accessed at 2024-11-11+01:00
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scripto...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioca...
https://medievalfragments.wordpress.c...
https://indenwittenhasewint.blogspot....
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...
Green paint by Chris goulet at English Wikipedia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ochre#/...

Fashion related:
BNF Français 805 (1400-1415): https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv...
https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv...
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...
Livre de Chasse 1390: https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv...
Livre de Chasse 1407: https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv...

Marginalia, doodles...:
I recommend looking for the work of Erik Kwakkel if you'd like to learn more about this.

https://medievalfragments.wordpress.c...
https://medievalbooks.nl/2018/10/05/d...
Pen trials of various letters in the margins of Life of Our Lady. Glasgow University Library Hunter 232 (U.3.5) Source https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles...
Estonian charter: https://www.monasterium.net/mom/EE-AM...

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