17-04-2026, 04:37 PM
(This post was last modified: 17-04-2026, 04:40 PM by JustAnotherTheory.)
@Wladimir that vellum cutting theory is very interesting. So if the vellum was cut after production of the images/text on it, it means that the VMS must have been written at the place of delivery of the batch of vellum (a scriptorium, for instance), as it would be very noticeable if someone takes a batch of uncut vellum from such a place (by stealing it, for instance).
It would be more noticeable to steal large uncut vellum than small cut vellum.
And I'm saying that because if the uncut vellum was not taken from its original delivery place, like a professional scriptorium, then it had to be filled in with secret text there, which would be noticed by literally everybody in the building.
Basically what I'm saying is:
It would be more noticeable to steal large uncut vellum than small cut vellum.
And I'm saying that because if the uncut vellum was not taken from its original delivery place, like a professional scriptorium, then it had to be filled in with secret text there, which would be noticed by literally everybody in the building.
Basically what I'm saying is:
- Either the entire scriptorium was aware that some people were producing a highly suspicious (and potentially prosecutable) secret cypher text, or
- Some people stole batches of large uncut vellum from a scriptorium (without folding it, as folding would create crease marks, which we do not see in the VMS), or
- The VMS was not made in a scriptorium.

