[split] f68r1 - circles with moon, sun and stars/planets

[JustAnotherTheory]

1. The glyphs aoy may be pitch marks, for languages with phonemic tone like Swedish, Lithuanian, Latvian, Serbian, Slovenian, Limburgish, Franconian,Abkhaz,...
   
2. They may be tone marks, like the "dummy" initial letters of Tibetan.
   
3. They may be marks for the quality of the next vowel.
   
4. They may be marks for voicing or other quality of the next consonant (p/B,k/g, etc).
   
5. They may be the three vowels of a Semitic language like Hebrew, Arabic or Ge'ez (either the weak or the strong ones).
   
6. The initial aoy may be a non-phonetic case marker.
   
7. It may be a word class marker, like the prefixes "m-", "wa-", "u-" of Swahili.
   

Absolutely. I especially like proposition 5. But here again, there is no testable way of either confirming or infirming this hypothesis.

And if it IS a cipher, then we are in a very troublesome situation. Ciphers in the early 15th century in Northern Italy looked nothing like this. There was a homophonic substitution table, coupled with a syllable substitution table, and a null table. The resulting cipher text looked akin to a matrix of symbols. In the VMS, we are looking at something completely unusual for this period of time of early 15th century. And yet, the manuscript dates to this exact period. Something is amiss. But what?