Stephen Bax

1960-2017
Professor of Applied Linguistics, University of Bedfordshire.
On 14 February 2014 Bax made public his research into using "bottom up" methodology to understand the manuscript. His method involves looking for and translating proper nouns, in association with relevant illustrations, in the context of other languages of the same time period. A paper he posted online is here offers tentative translation of 14 characters and 10 words. He suggests the text is a treatise on nature written in a natural language, rather than a code.
More information on the Wikipedia page on the VM 
His website (with the last posting December 2017) is (checked August 2020).
Some information on the University of Bedfordshire site at and . A mention here .
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