Help me out here

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To those of us like myself who have come to the conclusion that the text of the manuscript must be meaningless it really makes little difference if some of the sheets are not in their original order.

Why do you think it must be meaningless? Is it mainly because all attempts of finding any meaning have not been successful?

Of course I have no proof that it is meaningless, and it is not simple. I will just summarise the main points.

It is my conclusion after having spent a lot of time on the manuscript. Initially I though it could be writing in a known language. I endeavoured to try to find some linguistic patterns in the text to prove this. But I was unsuccessful. I used the statistical techniques of hypothesis testing to analyse the text, and found that the text was outside the bounds of statistical confidence. In short there were too many statistical anomalies in the text for it to be a genuine language. I also read the attempts of other people, many of them professionals in their field who used deep computational algorithms. They also were unsuccessful. Almost every language has been put forward as a candidate. No luck so far in that field.

If not in a known language then perhaps in cypher? This seemed to me to be even less plausible and raised a number of  questions. The biggest one being why? ( See my post You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. ) Also then how could this explain the differences in the language clusters? A and B being the significant ones, both very similar but at the same time both different. Two cypher books? Doubly complicated.

So what is left? Meaningless text. To the question ‘why’ I found that I had a plausible answer. The scenario I can envisage is that the author wanted to fabricate some bogus writing, fill it with claims about secret magic ( herbal medicine, astrology and other sciences ), claim that it came from some distant land where they used a strange alphabet, and make profit from it. The manuscripts would have been of immense curiosity and would have been greatly prized, and the author might have been able to command a substantial profit. I feel this can also offer a suggestion for the order in which the sections were written and an explanation for the variable professionalism in the illustrations ( You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. ). Also it can explain the language differences ( You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. ).

So, meaningless text seems to me to be the most plausible hypothesis.