No text, but a visual code

[Antonio García Jiménez]

That most of the VM shapes are consistent with Latin shapes it's not a fact at all, it's just your opinion. The VM script is based around lines and small loops and it's easy to be confused with the letters of any alphabet. The similarity is coincidental.

  If I accepted that opinion, I would have to believe that 17th century learned men knew less Latin and scribal conventions that 21st century learned men. I resist to believe it. Dozens of wise men from the Prague court must have seen a manuscript in which the emperor Rudolf was so interested. And they did not leave any testimony that they had seen anything related to Latin, quite the contrary.

Giving your opinion as a fact is simply giving up thinking about other possibilities and has led to failure after failure in the effort to decode the VM