14-01-2026, 11:30 PM
Quote:But then I bet that the Author could not find any buyers, "If I cannot read it, what use would this book be to me? I cannot even use it to impress my patients.
I would agree that VM would be really hard to sell in the 1400s.
Today it is valuable because it is old and has unknown script.
In the 1400s it wasn't old and a for the script...
As I said, I believe in the 1400s people would find unknown script not exciting at all. And ChatGPT agrees with me

Simple folks would think - I can't read it but probably the wise men can.
Educated people would think - it must be some foreign script. Maybe it is this Glagolitic script or these Viking runes that I have once heard about.
I have seen a wise comment recently. People in the Middle Ages accepted uncertainty and lack of knowledge much easier than we do.
Why can birds fly? Why rivers don't run out of water? Is the Earth really round and what's on the other side of it? Who knows

If they couldn't find an answer easily then they just accepted it and moved on because they didn't know a lot of things.
So they wouldn't really be obsessive about VM like we are. Today we need to know everything and feel very bad if we don't.
And yes, you couldn't read it so it was impractical. And if it was impractical, then it was hard to be sold.
All these things make quite improbable for me that VM was made especially to be sold later to some wealthy buyer.
And I may need this "lemma" later


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