In my own words, cynical means doubtful and skeptical.
The answer would be C) The governor.
The Voynich manuscript is an illustrated codex hand-written in an unknown writing system. ... The manuscript is named after Wilfrid Voynich, a Polish-Samogitian book dealer who purchased it in 1912. Some of the pages are missing, with around 240 remaining.
Balkan countries such as Serbia and Montenegro rebelled against the rule of the Ottoman Empire