A One-Page Ledger Method for Generating Voynich-Like Text

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... this workshop thinking they could create collections of these books to sell.
... One small group to write the book and one charming salesman to promote it.

Somehow I cannot see that the trade in books and manuscripts was as quick and easy as it is today. I cannot see that there would have been a big market for such manuscripts. Not enough to justify a team of opportunists occupying themselves full time on the sharp practice.

I very strongly believe that the VMS is a collection of individual pieces of work, written section by section over a length of time; the reward from each section providing the enthusiasm to write the next one. It seems so logical. It just would have been too risky to try to write the whole manuscript not knowing if you would be able to find a buyer for it.