TPO 35 In 1912 a bookseller named Wilfrid M Voynich acquired a beautifully illustrated handwritten book manuscript written on vellum vellum is a material that was used for writing before the introduction of paper The Voynich manuscript as it became known

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In 1912 a bookseller named Wilfrid M. Voynich acquired a beautifully illustrated handwritten book (manuscript) written on vellum (vellum is a material that was used for writing before the introduction of paper). The "Voynich manuscript," as it became known, resembles manuscripts written in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. However, it is written in a completely unknown script. To date, no one has been able to decode the script and understand the book's content. Several theories have been proposed to explain the origin of the Voynich manuscript. One theory is that the manuscript is a genuine work on some scientific or magical subject composed in a complex secret code. Anthony Ascham, a sixteenth-century physician and botanist, has been identified as a possible author, since many plant illustrations in the Voynich manuscript are quite similar to those in Ascham's book on medicinal plants, A Little Herbal, published in 1550. According to some other theories, the manuscript is really a fake and its text has no real meaning. For example, it has been proposed the manuscript was created by Edward Kelley, a sixteenth century personality who extracted money from nobles across Europe by pretending to have magical powers. Kelley may have created the manuscript as a fake magical book to sell to a wealthy noble. He used a made-up alphabet in a completely random order. It looks like a book of magical secrets, but there is no meaningful underlying text. Another theory is that the manuscript is actually a modern fake created by Wilfrid M. Voynich himself. As an antique book dealer, Voynich certainly had the knowledge of what old manuscripts should look like and could have created a fake one. Perhaps Voynich's plan was to sell the fake as a mysterious old book if he received an attractive offer.

The passage and the lecture are both about a beautiful handwritten book called "Voynich manuscript". this manuscript write on vellum and until now no one could decode this book. The author mentions that, there is three possible explanations for this manuscript. In contrast, in the lecture the speaker refutes each reasons.
First of all, the passage states that some groups believe it is a genuine work on specific or magical subject. They think that, there is possibility that Anthony Ascham wrote this book in sixteen century. However, in the lecture the professor mentions that this manuscripts created to convey special information, but he was an ordinary physician that his work was based on other sources so, he could not create some thing special and noble.
Secondly, The reading mentions another theory to explain the source of the book is that, it can be completely a fake book. A sixteen century person, who make money by tricking the other could make this to fool people to sell it to them. In opposite, the lecturer states that at that era people were simple and they fool easily and he did not need so much effort to create this beautiful manuscript and he did not care about how did it look like and a simpler one can fit his purpose.
Finally, the passage claims that it can be a fake modern manuscript by Voynich himself in case that he can sell it in high price. But, the speaker believe it is not true either because this handwritten book wrote on vellume that did not produce at least from one hundred years ago and the ink is from about four hundred years ago. Voynich may be can use one of his vallume from past works in his library but there is no way to get that ink.
that is why the lecturer opposes each reason of the passage.

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