No text, but a visual code

[ReneZ]

It is truly frustrating how in an overwhelming proportion in this forum the VM seems to be a thing for linguists, cryptologists and computational analysts. I have come to think that in reality there is no will to solve the mystery of a book that, despite its originality, fits perfectly in its time.

I say again that this book will cease to be an enigma when it is taken seriously by art historians and iconography experts.

This goes back to the very beginnings of the Voynich MS online communities, when the WWW was emerging.
This happened in the early 1990's.
Jim Reeds visited the Beinecke and had a talk with the curator Roger Babcock.

Analysing the text, applying all possible tools of cryptanalysis, language analysis etc is exactly what the online community could contribute to. Medievalists tend to have neither the capabilities nor the interest to do this. On the other hand, they have the tools and capabilities to analyse the material, the artwork, etc. and this is not the case for the online community.

Of course, already in the 90's, the amateur community preferred to ignore this, because image interpretation was so much fun.