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The VMS is probably not a professional project (unless it was a draft for something grander). The best ideas I've been able to come up with so far are that it might be a family project (families did create manuscripts for their children), a school project (university thesis?), or maybe a sample for applying for Guild membership, but there are probably possibilities I've overlooked.
There had to be at least three people involved, at the very least. Perhaps there were five or six (e.g., a group of university students?, or apprentices in a scriptorium?)
No one could convince me in a million years that this was done by one person. There are definitely two hands in the script. There appear to be two hands in the drawings. I'm quite sure there are at least two hands in the paintings. However, I don't know how much overlap there is between scribes and painters/illustrators. Even two would surprise me. I think at least three people were involved (at a minimum).
I'm not so sure it is not a professional project,
but that also depends on what we mean by professional.
It strikes me as possibly a group of intelligent renaissance people
got together with the sole purpose of making a dedication of knowledge,
possibly through an ancient platonic lens,
but including contemporary references.
If this was made to stand the test of time. Why no copies?
Possibly the intention was to make copies down the track,
but history prevented it from occurring.
A professional or amateur project?
It may not have been sponsored by a wealthy or noble figure.
It may have just been lead by the ancient motivation to pass on information.
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The drawings at some perspective seem immature or unnatural,
but at another level are particular and specific, hardly a first go.
Symbology abound. But yet, hardly any mistakes.
The lack of mistakes can be explained easily imo,
as opposed to correcting them on the MS
the page may have just been redone upon a mistake noticed,
possibly implying some peer review.
That the VMS doesnt look like a typical sponsored project
doesnt imply amateurish. All that glitters aint gold.
That it involves some elements of complex knowledge,
implies to me that it is indeed a project by several high level
learned students of their craft (perhaps "scientists" or "druids").
Maybe not Da Vinci, but imagine it is 1950s
and you got together just a few highly accomplished people in their different fields,
Einstein, Turing, Picasso.
Even without looking at the VMS from an artisan perspective
about how many hands there are,
just from the perspective of the types of information being conveyed,
even among renaissance figures of the time,
it seems like only a small group of people would have the skills and motivation
to be a single producer of the VMS.
But if its a group of people its more plausible,
but leaves the intention as the mystery yet to be explained.