Manly concluded that Newbold had seen only 'the products of his own
intense enthusiasm and his learned and ingenious subconscious'.
-- John Manly. Medievalist and philologist John Manly
speaking about William Newbold, a professor of philosophy at Pennsylvania
who spent years studying the Voynich manuscript and who came to believe that
the glyphs contained microletters encoded into each penstroke. Quoted
by William Sherman in an essay, "Cryptographic attempts" in the book,
The Voynich Manuscript edited by Raymond Clemens (2016).