Why and how the text could be Bavarian

[Jorge_Stolfi]

I ’ve been thinking about it, so here goes: Crazy idea:  Maybe the VMS isn’t a special, encrypted work at all, but rather a cipher experiment. Someone developed a cipher—perhaps in collaboration with others—and they tested it on the book by encrypting another book or sections of it, to see what worked and what didn’t.

It is not crazy at all.  There are historical examples.  That was a natural way for a cryptographer to prove his worth to potential employers.

One such precedent is famous and well-known to cryptographers (Agrippa? Trithemius? Forgot who.)  

IIRC, another one was written by Raphael Mnishovski, Marci's friend who originated the idea that the VMS was a Roger Bacon original bought by emperor Rudolf.

However, for that purpose, the drawings of the VMS would be wasted work and wasted vellum.

All the best, --stolfi