What if Voynich plaintext is very heavily shortened?

[Koen G]

I don't think anyone could retrieve the information from a text shortened in this way.

However, medieval people did memorize much more than we do today, and it was not uncommon (especially for certain professions) to commit entire works to memory.

Hence, one possibility is that the information in the Voynich is just a framework for someone to remember the full information they have memorized. Which would really be a worst case scenario for us, because in that case it is possible that the key to the text was in the mind of someone who died half a millennium ago.


Now on the other hand, if a text were shortened to the point of being impossible to read, why add the two additional steps of a verbose cipher and different glyphs on top? It feels like double overkill.