Is the VM an autograph or copy?

[Scarecrow]

On the question of whether the VMS makes sense or not, I can only repeat myself at this point. I think if you consider the effort that was spent on the creation of the VMS, then you have to assume that it makes sense. If it were only a few lines of code, then it would be also conceivable that it concerns a hoax. With a whole codex the thing looks however different. 

While I do agree that VMS is readable with a real meaning, I am hesitant to assume *anything* in relation with the VMS. As logical it may sound, the effort put to something does not still demonstrate the importance or usefulness of it. It is a non-sequitur.

What is quite possible is that the content should only be accessible to an "exclusive" group of readers. That is, anyone without the necessary prior knowledge of the writing system should be excluded from the outset. So it was not about the distribution of information / knowledge to everyone who could read but about the transmission from insiders to insiders. The complete absence of any plain text (annotations, marginal notes and so on) reinforces this assumption.

This is a good possibility, again if we think the effort needed to produce the VMS and the ideas that were put in it. To ideate and design such a writing system that VMS has, cryptography+steganography (IMO), would also lead to think that the intended audience was intentionally small. Did they do it by themselves? Hiring external people to do would have exposed their system which they evidently didn't want to happen.

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I now imagine some guy with a vision who hired the cheapest bunch of scribes and painters in all the land.

While still keeping the system and content a secret?