Elephant in the Room Solution Considerations

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I meant was, why not write it in a language that people can read?  Who did she expect to read it?  If she didn't want anyone to read it, why publish it at all?

Ok, now I see what your question is. Thanks. 

My sense, currently, is that she was leaving a record of her legacy in a way that would have survived the scrutiny and possible destruction by her sworn enemies. 

I am actually not sure that it could not be read and understood in 1400s even as it is. It may have been actually readable then. We sometime ignore the vast timespans between periods associated with this manuscript.

From 1400s to 1600s a long time had passed, and local dialects, abbreviations used, and so on, may have changed in time that an accessible text in 1400s may have been less readable two centuries later.

But I have not ruled out the possibility of her using ciphers (not super complicated ones, but those made possible by invention of her own idiosyncratic abbreviations and short-hand systems) to keep the text less accessible to others.

Also, I have noted that those who removed important quires and sections of the manuscript in subsequent centuries, likely to make it marketable to Rudolf II, or (also) to suppress her identity as its author, must have made the VM even more enigmatic than it would have been in 1400s. 

Her interest was not in “publishing” it in the sense of making it most readable to all. Her interest was in creating a work that could survive as her keepsake for future generations, since she had lost basically all her close relatives in her final years. If you draw a painting you want to leave as legacy, your point is not to scratch it to make it more readable. You share your art hoping it will give others a sense of who you were, what you believe in, and what you went through.

Her interest was to leave a keepsake that was in her preferred language(s) and tongue, telling her story, building on a handbook that she had used in her life for botanical and astrological interests.

I think some of the material she added in her retirement years may have been also inspired by her Christian faith (I think she had Franciscan leanings, seeing her faith as part of nature, than in subservience to the official church, with who she had lots of troubles) to make her final peace with God, including implied symbolic baptisms implied in the balneological section. 

Unfortunately, you have to wait since I am not able to prepare material in a rush for this post, and I am also researching this material as I move along.