15-12-2024, 09:50 PM
Wow, what a complete response to my post. Even as I read it, I was thinking Nostradamus. He was in it for the money. By extension, if the VM was a template document, it suggests multiple copies of parts were marketed. As such, would we expect to find a " trail of crumbs" in other medieval documents that circle back to a person or group that produced cookie cutter information derived from the source manuscript? I certainly would think so. Further, the idiosyncratic nature of the source information and its translation is a fingerprint. Voynachese or at least the handwriting style should able to be matched.
I am going to tell on myself here. It is easy to take the position that the VM is all smoke and mirrors because I have nothing to prove. Diligent believers have the real burden and I appreciate it, but regret for their sake the lost time.
If anyone who wrote up the VM with its invented character set, imaginative illustrations and did not use those devices to make more material for profit , then he, she or they were a fool, insane or too ill to work. It is simply too much of a project. As I alluded to before, people have masterfully hand forged a five dollar bill, but why go to that trouble? The same reasoning goes to the VM.If it were real and the cipher was lost, then it is useless, then and now.
I am going to tell on myself here. It is easy to take the position that the VM is all smoke and mirrors because I have nothing to prove. Diligent believers have the real burden and I appreciate it, but regret for their sake the lost time.
If anyone who wrote up the VM with its invented character set, imaginative illustrations and did not use those devices to make more material for profit , then he, she or they were a fool, insane or too ill to work. It is simply too much of a project. As I alluded to before, people have masterfully hand forged a five dollar bill, but why go to that trouble? The same reasoning goes to the VM.If it were real and the cipher was lost, then it is useless, then and now.