e-codices is my primary attention since I suspect the VMS to be a good deal Swiss
I don't know about the main text (I have different ideas about that), but it's my opinion, based on palaeographic samples that I've been collecting since 2008, that the writing on 116v is probably by someone in the Swiss/Augsburg/Bavaria/Tyrol strip. There's a culturally connected strip along southern Switzerland/Germany/Austria/northern Lombardy (picture a ribbon running along that piece of geography from Switzerland to Bohemia) that has similar handwriting characteristics.
I have searched very hard for data on this. I've been trying to get it written up. It's one thing to express an opinion (or make a guess, I notice guesses are very popular among the Voynich "solutions" crowd), but I wanted really good hard data to try to pin it down and I almost have enough to post something meaningful.
I guess I'm not happy posting little bits one at a time. In fact, when I think about it, I hate doing it that way... (maybe that's why my blogs are long and I find it painful to write them, and yet I feel even my longest blogs leave out 80% of what I want to include). Who knows if a find is significant or not until you follow it up? It often takes years to follow it up. It takes a lot of "elimination" and examples to feel comfortable saying, yes, this is real, this is not just a guess or a lucky hunch. Guessing is easy. Proving is not.
I keep reminding myself that searching in the area you expect to find something can be dangerous. I've spent years on the e-codices site (love it, it's one of my favorites) and others that include Swiss manuscripts (e.g., BNF), BUT I have found similar samples that are believed to be from Austria (and a couple of other places), SO, I try not to get overly focused on Switzerland because who knows what I might be missing if I narrow it down too soon.
Well, as for myself, luckily I'm not the only person working on the mysteries of the VMS, so I'm not afraid of missing something.
I'm truly admiring the amount of time and effort that you and others (you know who you are) are putting into digging through raw data, that's invaluable for the Voynich research and that's what it's built upon; being unable to boast that, what I do is I'm trying to pluck a lucky thread and pull it. Sometimes that would be an accidental observation, sometimes a good idea.
Re "pulverisatum", see here: You are not allowed to view links.
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