[split] What can the structural peculiarities of the VMS tell us about the nature of the underlying text

[oshfdk]

Yes, it's all a matter of belief. But I'm sure that if it were a well-known medieval language - even one with a more complex cipher and a very specific plaintext - it would have been deciphered by now.... But fine, prove me wrong; I'd be thrilled if someone finally managed to decipher the VMS.

I was under the impression that you are working exactly on this - attempting to decode the manuscript as a specific type of plaintext written in a somewhat encoded version of Bavarian?

Note that Trithemius’s Steganographia Book III was only decoded in ~1998 by You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view., despite being published and available for 500 years and written in Latin. You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.