Lipogrammatic text

[geoffreycaveney]

OK, I admit the "search and replace" suggestion was a tongue in cheek joke  
To do a proper lipogrammatical text is exhausting, but that is the whole point - it's an intellectual exercise. That French bloke who wrote that novel without using the letter "e". Poncela, who IIRC wrote five novels and in each one omitted one sequential vowel (bet the "u" was the easiest one to write!)
But I don't see why our scribe(s) would have used this literary form in his (their) book. The whole point, really, is to show off to the world (unless there is a religious reason, I suppose, but I don't know of any).

Well, I have suggested earlier in this thread that the point could possibly be, for example, Yorkist English people, perhaps in northern France during the period of English control of that region in 1415-1429, communicating with each other in a cipher which also omitted entirely certain letters in the word "Lancaster", perhaps first of all omitting "L" and "A", for example.