20-09-2019, 12:18 AM
Quote:How someone would have interpreted it in the 15th century, I don't know, but the You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. in the right margin of folio 1r suggests that SOMEONE thought it was a substitution cipher. I have posted a timeline on my You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. of when I think the column text might have been written, but because the column text is so faint and because it is not full words, I cannot be absolutely sure. I think the estimate is reasonable, however, and should be given at least some credence.
It just occurred to me that that is a valuable observation: it gives us understanding that in that time period the VMS was in possession of some learned person. It was not simply lost somewhere.