[split] Implications of multiple scribes

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For a group of people to agree to write a book together that was only readable amongst themselves seems odd; though is it really so odd, I don't know. ...

Keep in mind that this was around the time that several secret societies were forming, and also a time when ciphers were fairly popular (not saying the VMS is a cipher, but it could be).

With travel improving, and archaeologists bringing back artifacts, there was a growing interest in "hieroglyphics" (which was a more general term then than it is now) and a few decades later a very strong interest in creating a "universal" language, since the use of Latin was fading and scholars were concerned about being able to intercommunicate in a Latin-less future (as they saw it).


Working in secret was not unheard-of. Gutenberg knew there was a danger in his new technology getting out before he had printed his first book, so he worked in secret for several years (I can't remember how many, but it was quite a while).