14-02-2026, 01:37 PM
(This post was last modified: 14-02-2026, 02:29 PM by Stefan Wirtz_2.)
Funny how this is circling around the same (brittle) "fact" again and again:
"it must be written by an Italian!" -- that claim is supported by nothing else but "style" impressions. Which could easily be imitated.
Just as reminder: "Europe" looked this way around VMS time (a bit later here, Constantinople/Byzanz existed until 1453 of course and some balkanese affairs happened before):
![[Image: f2bb23cf1279afccf2e2e07c8db94042.jpg]](https://i.pinimg.com/1200x/f2/bb/23/f2bb23cf1279afccf2e2e07c8db94042.jpg)
- Europe did not end 2km northeast of Venice.
- Central Asia did not begin somewhere east of Caspian Sea or Gobi desert - refer to any TO Map of 15th century for border lines of Europe to Asia. (Linguistic Central) Asia reached deep into geographical europe.
- all "countries" here were and are filled with multiple different languages or dialects; a lot of them with clearly asian origins.
- as an example, the western mongolians changed their writing system at least twice, coming to a top-down writing direction
- we know where the VMS ended and may know some intermediate positions, but we don't know where it started it's journey.
So who could ever confirm or exclude any place of origin or source language for VMS even only for "Europe"...?
"it must be written by an Italian!" -- that claim is supported by nothing else but "style" impressions. Which could easily be imitated.
Just as reminder: "Europe" looked this way around VMS time (a bit later here, Constantinople/Byzanz existed until 1453 of course and some balkanese affairs happened before):
- Europe did not end 2km northeast of Venice.
- Central Asia did not begin somewhere east of Caspian Sea or Gobi desert - refer to any TO Map of 15th century for border lines of Europe to Asia. (Linguistic Central) Asia reached deep into geographical europe.
- all "countries" here were and are filled with multiple different languages or dialects; a lot of them with clearly asian origins.
- as an example, the western mongolians changed their writing system at least twice, coming to a top-down writing direction
- we know where the VMS ended and may know some intermediate positions, but we don't know where it started it's journey.
So who could ever confirm or exclude any place of origin or source language for VMS even only for "Europe"...?