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One question which has to be addressed by anyone whose theory is that the manuscript's content is some standard text used in medieval Latin European education is this:
Why would anyone trouble to mystify a work whose plain text was available in every scholarly library and taught as part of the ordinary curriculum?

Remember that texts did not only exist in the form of books: their content was quite literally memorised as part of their being read.

If the written part of the text is in cipher (which I tend to doubt) it indicates that the person(s) concerned considered the information valuable and presumably rare - at least rare and valued within their community.

Diane,

I believe that the text is not that valuable, because of labels which are evident in the manuscript.  Labels like the stars such as Pleiade would be the most obvious as-well as chives.  This information is well known so why obscure it in a cipher.  I really think the Author never intended to read his own work after it was complete so he enciphered it in a way where the letters underneath the glyphs were scrambled so Gematria maybe the key. We have to remember that all traditional methods used to try a break into the VMS occurred over time; then something obvious here states a non-traditional cipher, one that excludes even the author from reading his own work some time after it was finished.  The information if ever decoded would probably not impress anyone on a scholarly level.

The Rosette, I find the most interesting and I think its a map of Europe's nine most important cities or countries.  Tepence is what we have for a name on f1r, so could have he Authored it on old Vellum? I don't know! One would have to find more then a limited Wikepedia page on him, but that's all I have which is another mystery.

If the VMS was valuable, the Author would have used a cipher that would have been broken long ago, because the cipher would have yielded a frequency count associated with a language.

Diane if you know of any cipher that uses a Gematria system that enables you to decode it please tell me how?