If it feels like an Alberti Cipher it is one!

[Vonologia]

I spent a summer once making volvelles out of the VM. It was fun but eventually fruitless work.

Actually, I couldn't be bothered before to go into this, but since the topic has risen its head again I may as well.

It is quite easy to prove that the VM is not the product of an Alberti cipher ( or other polyalphabetic cipher).

In essence, this is because such ciphers create pseudo random cover text - they mask the frequency distribution of the plaintext.

But the VM corpus doesn't exhibit that characteristic. Quite the opposite. Instead, glyphs are highly positionally aware within vords.

Ergo, it is not the result of an Alberti cipher. Or if it were, it would quickly succumb to frequency analysis, which it doesn't.

 Only if there was a direct glyph to glyph translation? If one glyph meant two or three or five, would frequency distribution still apply? Also, apologies for not differentiating between "code" and "cipher." Meant one in the same, but in the field of cryptography, they are different.

The volvelle angle is interesting. Like.

Ever seen any VM correlation to the House of Visconti? (not with Voyvelles)