Civitas sancti tui facta est deserta

Decoding of the VMS-initial folio 4 – 968 views


In this decryption document, we present the plaintext of the folio 1r, second passage of the VMS. The text on this folio is arranged of 4 different passages with some free spaces between them. The second passage consists of 2 lines of coded text from an external source, in our opinion an ancient script from the first century CE, plus a comment line formulated and redacted by a medieval scribe. The content of this passage is a lament over Jerusalem after its destruction in the year 70 CE.


to be continued…