#old tomes

[plantpirating]

The thing that gets me the most about the Voynich manuscript that seems rarely talked about is how much it would cost to make.

You can only get 4 pages per calf.

There are about 240 pages in the manuscript.

So I don't think this was just some random dude who put it together as a joke. Or, it could have been a joke, but only by someone to whom the several hundred thousand dollars wouldn't have meant much.