The Voynich Ninja

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I don't know if you can equate it with the example of David.
Here is an excerpt from the 9th century.
Further down comes the meaning of runes.
But it is certain that people were interested in other writings early on.

They were definitely interested in Greek (as in the above example) and sometimes Hebrew.


Sometimes they wrote the letters/numbers in columns instead of rows if they were including three or more languages.

People studying the classics were interested in Greek. People studying history and the Bible learned both Greek and Hebrew (and still do). I see Greek letters/numbers fairly regularly in Latin manuscripts.


But Sherwood was pretty certain the VMS was Italian (anagrammed Italian), so I'm not sure why she would throw in an English abbreviation (a questionable one that was probably not used very frequently and which could be interpreted as almost anything since it is only one letter long).