[split] Did the VM go straight from cerebellum to vellum?

[oshfdk]

But the point here is that the COT is completely independent of the The Scribe Was Not The Author Theory, as well as of the There Was A Draft Theory (and its opposite, the Brain To Vellum Theory).  Neither needs the other or is made significantly more likely or unlikely by the other.

And, again, the COT is also independent of the Massive Retracing Theory.

I find all these highly related, observations you make in one certainly can affect the other, after all we are talking about a single final object. As far as I understand, you are fine with at least some brain to vellum items, like the designs and embellishments that the scribe added in COT, is this correct? At the same time you consider the mistakes and mishaps a sign of MRT, which also could be alternatively explained as brain to vellum mishaps. Also, there are some items in the original layout of the manuscript, like visible misalignment of certain lines, that you consider mistakes, but that weren't fixed, so maybe fixing mistakes wasn't a priority for the author (regardless of whether the author was the scribe or not). I think all of this could be just as easily explained by a person creating the manuscript directly on the vellum and not caring at all about possible mistakes and bad outcomes. In this case the choice of bad quality vellum could be deliberate, if all this was intended more as an experimental pet project and not something that the author intended to use in the future. And the choice of vellum over paper was just to keep the draft durable, if the project was expected to take a long time. Maybe the Voynich manuscript that we have is the draft of the Voynich manuscript that the author envisioned.