01-06-2019, 05:29 PM
JKP,
what you write is clearly correct. Unfortunately, it isn't really possible to see how this à looks on the Voynich MS.
I could easily imagine that the "a" is written differently when it just follows another letter (the capital J in Jacobi) or when it is the start of a word.
When Voynich sent a picture of the signature to the Prague archives in 1921, it was also not clear, and the answer suggested that the writing was: "Jacobj ð Tepenecz". (Hope that curved d with a stroke through it comes through).
In any case, the example of the Voynich MS is the only one we have that is on parchment, and I can imagine that this also makes a difference.
what you write is clearly correct. Unfortunately, it isn't really possible to see how this à looks on the Voynich MS.
I could easily imagine that the "a" is written differently when it just follows another letter (the capital J in Jacobi) or when it is the start of a word.
When Voynich sent a picture of the signature to the Prague archives in 1921, it was also not clear, and the answer suggested that the writing was: "Jacobj ð Tepenecz". (Hope that curved d with a stroke through it comes through).
In any case, the example of the Voynich MS is the only one we have that is on parchment, and I can imagine that this also makes a difference.