# A fifteenth-century original

> Still possible: The manuscript is an original of the fifteenth century: written and drawn on parchment of 1404-1438 by five scribes working sheet by…

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# A fifteenth-century original

The manuscript is an original of the fifteenth century: written and drawn on parchment of 1404-1438 by five scribes working sheet by sheet, quire-marked in a fifteenth-century hand, and bound later out of order.

**Still possible** Answers **1** questionLiteratureScreened0

## Where it stands

**Still possible** Its tests haven't settled it: seven pieces of evidence for, none against. It needs two reviews to be accepted.

## Evidence 7 for · none against

[102 of an original 116 leaves survive, in 18 quires](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/voynich-manuscript/evidence/EVD0D8GDHET5NBC/102-of-an-original-116-leaves-survive-in-18-quires)

Established · weighs some · F-002

FOR

[Adjacent pages share vocabulary, as in languages](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/voynich-manuscript/evidence/EVD0D8GDQJ46FS3/adjacent-pages-share-vocabulary-as-in-languages)

Established · weighs little · F-027

FOR

[Calfskin parchment, radiocarbon-dated 1404–1438](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/voynich-manuscript/evidence/EVD0D8GDH702FH0/calfskin-parchment-radiocarbon-dated-14041438)

Established · weighs heavily · F-001

FOR

[Five scribes wrote the text](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/voynich-manuscript/evidence/EVD0D8GDHPM3VVE/five-scribes-wrote-the-text)

Established · weighs little · F-003

FOR

[The hands are interchangeable in variant choice](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/voynich-manuscript/evidence/EVD0D8GDPTP36PJ/the-hands-are-interchangeable-in-variant-choice)

Established · weighs little · F-024

FOR

[The leaves are not in their maker's order](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/voynich-manuscript/evidence/EVD0D8GDHYE7WJP/the-leaves-are-not-in-their-makers-order)

Established · weighs little · F-004

FOR

[The sheet, not the page, is the unit of composition](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/voynich-manuscript/evidence/EVD0D8GDMCJ49MN/the-sheet-not-the-page-is-the-unit-of-composition)

Established · weighs some · F-014

FOR

[Documented ownership begins in Prague, c. 1610](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/voynich-manuscript/evidence/EVD0D8GDJ680V83/documented-ownership-begins-in-prague-c-1610)

Established · weighs little · F-005

NEUTRAL

## The questions it answers

[What is the object, and who made it?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/voynich-manuscript/questions/QST08JFXN6R2VQ6/what-is-the-object-and-who-made-it)

Most likelyA fifteenth-century original

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