The Voynich Manuscript is a cipher because...?

[Helmut Winkler]

There is no good reason to believe the VMs is a ciphre. Voynich said the VMs is Roger Bacon and it is ciphre. Both statements were wong, V. was a bookseller who tried to sell and needed a reason for a high price, but he was no scholar and he did not find one who confirme his views. The Bacon hypotheses is discredited and the cryptographers work according to the rule I have a hammer, the problem must be a nail. I have some experience with paleography medieval mss. and the VMs looks like a highly abbreviated medieval ms. and I thought so since I first saw it. I have seen somewhere a ms. from the Vaticana in the last few days which is a very good example for a ms. difficult not to read but to understand, there are other good examples like the Datini Archive or other archives from medieval towns.  And it is another fairy tale that it is written in an unknown script. The VMs is not unreadable, the trick is to find out what its meaning is.