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

[Bernd]

I find this very hard to believe. If there had been countless VM-style documents, they would have been mentioned somewhere. Even if the originals did not survive, some comment about them in other literature would - as with many works of antiquity now lost. We can therefore safely deduct that VM-style documents were never common or part of public knowledge.

I have laid out You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. why I believe the VM was a failure. In so far as something like this was never attempted before or after. At least not to the degree that it became a widespread technique. We can therefore also deduct that the VM neither is an efficient cipher system, nor a practical transliteration of a foreign language. Whatever the reason for its creation was, I do believe it was highly personal. From the amount of work and detail, I am certain it was important and made sense for one or a small group of individuals, but not necessarily beyond that.

I have no idea if the VM was written straight to vellum but the peculiarities of the text with line and paragraph of a function make me believe there was a draft. It's not random babble the author came up with on the fly. Even if it does not have meaning, it must have been constructed by some algorithm. And the writing is too fluid for frequent pauses.