The 'Chinese' Theory: For and Against

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Why did the Author invent a new script

Ignorant newcomer here, but how do we know it was a new invention by a single author? Couldn't it have been a known method of keeping writings secret among a group of academics (at a time when religious persecution might have made that very desirable)? How many manuscripts from those times have survived, 5% or fewer? Doesn't that mean we should be very careful with assumptions like these?

I can say that the Voynichese script is generally similar to the Latin script of the time, and if we want, we can find a similar glyph for any letter. For example, EVA s is how the letter e was sometimes written, EVA n is how the letter i was sometimes written, and EVA r is the rotunda r. This doesn't prove much, of course, but the ease of such a comparison suggests that Voynichese is far from unique in nature.