The 'Chinese' Theory: For and Against

[Jorge_Stolfi]

Theories that assume it is an encrypted European language cannot explain why one would encrypt the entire 200+ page book with a method so sophisticated that not even the NSA and Bletchley spooks could figure out anything about it. If the goal was to hide some "dangerous" stuff, why did the Author then add bizarre illustrations that would have attracted attention and suspicions? ("Those naked women must be witches celebrating a black sabbath. Off to the stake with him!")

If it’s encrypted, then there was something to encrypt.

In other words, "The theories that say it is encrypted offer no plausible explanation for why it was encrypted, nor why the book was created."

Why did the author have to show his encrypted book to someone?

If the book was not meant to be shown to others, why did the Author decided to have it copied onto vellum?  Why did he waste so much vellum with blank spaces in the herbal and with nymphs in the Zodiac?

The Chinese Theory explains all of those puzzling VMS features with no strain.

Really?

Yes, really.  

Please be specific.  Which part of the Chinese Origin theory you think is implausible?  

Which puzzling feature of the VMS you think cannot be explained within that theory?