The first palaeographers to assert the Ms is in a humanist script?

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It's difficult to make this kind of judgment about text that is in some way invented or ciphered.

If you look at alphabets that have been invented (in contrast to those that evolve slowly), you frequently find that they are more disconnected and widely spaced than evolved scripts. I noticed this when investigating cipher alphabets, and also the many alphabets that have been invented by missionaries working in areas where there was no written text.


The various shapes in the VMS that are based on Latin abbreviation shapes lean more toward Gothic than Humanist styles, but the spacing is more similar to Humanist (but... this might be a coincidence, for the reasons given above).