Perhaps it was because they knew Latin so well that it looked strange to them (despite the commonalities in glyphs). They couldn't read it.
To me it looks like real effort was put into designing the VMS script. I don't mean just the glyphs, mainly I mean the way the whole thing was put together. When you really study it, there is just enough complexity and variation from line to line and folio to folio to suggest there is SOMETHING there (what that something is, I don't know).
Personally, I don't think it is a cipher in the more common medieval sense.
Monica's take on it is that it's a Romanized alphabet, which is not a cipher.
To me it looks like real effort was put into designing the VMS script. I don't mean just the glyphs, mainly I mean the way the whole thing was put together. When you really study it, there is just enough complexity and variation from line to line and folio to folio to suggest there is SOMETHING there (what that something is, I don't know).
Personally, I don't think it is a cipher in the more common medieval sense.
Monica's take on it is that it's a Romanized alphabet, which is not a cipher.
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