Historical Context

[GeoffreySea]

How about a little demonstration on a specific segment of VMs text, like the outer ring of White Aries??

That's the wrong approach. That approach has led to failures because it assumes the text is already in  a known language. What I'm saying is that by identifying the book as Khazar which can be done on the basis of the illustrations and provenance, we can then develop a procedure. That procedure is to first elaborate the alphabet variation used, on which a start has already been made.  Once the alphabet (a style of Hebrew cursive) is fixed, then we can develop a Latinized transcription of the entire text. That text should then be readable as a Qipchak dialect.