Who is the author of VM?

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I believe the author of the Voynich Manuscript is Nicholas Kempf, a native of Strasbourg, not that well known in the contemporary world, but well known and respected in the 15th century. After obtaining masters degree at the Vienna University, and teaching for a few years, he entered a Carthusian monastery in Gaming, where he became a prior. Several of his classmates and students followed him there, and many became the leaders in various Carthusian monasteries in Slavic speaking lands. 
For over 20 years, Kempf was prior at two different Slovenian Charterhouses, Jurklošter and Pleterje. He was a poet, writer, theologian, and Chrystian mystic. He wrote over 30 books, but only five of them have been preserved. 
He was a strong proponent of the Basel Council and its reforms, even after the Germany re-established good relations with Roman popes by signing the Vienna Concordat. This is probably the reason why Kempf, which was most likely a proponent of the ideas promoted by the German religious movement Friends of God, centered in Strasbourg. The movement was focused on prophesy based on genuine mystical religious experience and symbolic interpretation of biblical writing, as well as the use of vernacular languages in liturgy.

My reasons for believing he is the author:
1. I believe the VM is written in Slovenian (Carniolan) language;
2. As a prior of Slovenian charterhouse, he would have know how to speak Slovenian and as teacher and theologian, he would have to prepare the books in vernacular for liturgy, as it was expected at the time:
3. If there were more than one scribe, he could have plenty monks on hand to help him;
4. He would have plenty of parchment on hand, obtaining it either from Charter house or from the Counts of Celje, the greatest patrons of Jurklošter and Pleterje charterhouses.
5. I believe the VM was a long-term project and could have been written between 1440 and 1460, since the monasteries could have had parchment on stock.
6. He was a humanistic writer and kept in touch with humanistic intellectuals at Vienna University, including some close to the imperial court of Frederic III;
7. He himself had a mystical religious experiences (which can explain the weird illustrations), since his greatest work is Mystical Theology;
8. Since the Floral part is the large part of the VM, I can relate him to the monk described in the Slovenian folk legend CVETNIK (the word is a play of words, like an acrostic: in the legend, it is a toponym of the Church, but since the word CVET (flower) was used for a poem, it could also mean 'a poet', or 'St. Nick'), a toponym for a chapel where Kampf most likely had a mystical religious experience in 1459.
9. In 1451, Kempf bought a land at Laško for the Carthusians where an open swimming pool was built for public baths (this might be related to the VM sketches of the pools);
10. The 'castle' in Cosmology looks like Jurklošter Charterhouse where Kempf was a prior for 20 years. The word above it says 'from where' in Slovenian; next to it is an early Carthusian symbol that looks like a map of the world:
12. The church with three towers looks like the Benedictine monastery Maria Laah Abbey near Kempf's home town;
14. Some illustrations show great similarities to the illustrations created in Carniola and Swabia;
15. Guzy proposed that the VM was most likely sold to Rudolf II by Carl Wiedeman who obtained a lot of books in the Gaming Charterhouse. The VM might have been one of them, since Kempf most likely kept it until his death in 1497. 
16. His most likely kept in touch with his Slovenian contemporary Thomas of Celje who was secretary of Frideric III and introduced Humanism at his court. He also taught Friderick's son to speak Slovenian. It is also believed Thomas wrote Slovenian grammar book and a dictionary, which was lost. Could parts of the VM  be his work?

These are just a few of my ideas about the possible author of the Voynich Manuscript.