02-04-2023, 10:44 AM
The VMs never had a purpose in this sense of the word, it is a collection of notes bound together as we have loose leaf books. It is similar to a private copybook, comparable to the Kopialbücher of chanceries, hundreds of them are in European archives. It is written in a medieval shorthand, that a non-medievaliist can't read it is not surprising, as a matter of fact I have reason to believe there are other examples, somehing I have to check and that makes it likely that someone like Kircher could read it.