Need advice for testing of hypotheses related to the self-citation method

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A bit more on the initialisation problem as I see it.
Here, I am just talking about the very start of the text.

We must keep in mind that the text uses a new alphabet, and its words exhibit a relatively strict pattern.

Just starting with two arbitrary words (strings using some of the symbols in this alphabet) won't do it.
These would use only a subset of the character set, so the additional (new) characters would be introduced in an intial procedure. This should still be seen as part of the initialisation. This process is complete once all of the 'normal' characters are represented in the text. 
Here I don't even want to make an issue of the more or less rare characters like x  v  b .

How large would this initial group have to be? Would this group already exhibit the word pattern?
This means that the word pattern would be included both in the initial words and in the rules for creating new ones. This would make it something deliberate.

A page of the VM doesn't have to be the first page of Voynichese ever produced. Several pages may have been produced in parallel from sources on pages that were not necessarily kept in the final product.

The first page ever produced probably didn't look good and was discarded: not enough diversity in first generation words, not enough rules to evolve enough different words. In the beginning they must have tested the method on paper and not directly on vellum, until it stabilized enough to be confident that they could use it for the generation of a long manuscript. Maybe they added q after You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. and made a few adjustments to the rules. It's impossible to guess the exact process anyway.