The Voynich Ninja

This is on paper though, or am I mistaken? Still, I read some (cursing) complaints of the tedious quill practice.. preparing them, to find only half of them usable, and the sharpening knife being, well, very sharp. I used a modern stanley cutter knife, but even with all care, I hurt my finger once, very ugly.

Edit: I cut my _left index though.. I think it needs a lot of practice to use the knife with your left hand, if you are being right handed.

Here's what happens when you are very cold or possibly trying to write while riding in a cart (from the various notes, it sounds like this person possibly traveled).

I don't think it's Parkinson's because the text after it is normal again, but I have seen texts that were written by someone with tremors.

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JKP, do you still have the link to this font?

I would like to read something about it.

(09-02-2020, 09:33 AM)Aga Tentakulus Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.JKP, do you still have the link to this font?

I would like to read something about it.

I'm sorry, many of my images were collected years ago and if they were not directly relevant to the VMS, I didn't record the shelf numbers. I might have recorded it if I collected something elsewhere in the same manuscript, but I didn't record it for this specific clip.

It's a Gothic font (very common in the 15th century). Probably Bavaria or Switzerland. The same style found on 116v, but thousands of scribes wrote this way.

I was only interested in the word "uxn" from the first line to see the context.
"uxn" possibly "usn"  ( aus einen ),( from one ).
here the "x" on 116 would be read as "s", possible "z" as double "ss"

It seems Latin to me: uxor eius Adelbardis

There is a difference between a blob that is caused by excess ink and a filled-in loop.

An ink blob occurs when there was too much ink on the quill or the quill is pressed too hard, which causes the tines to spread wider and lose more ink. Sometimes it occurs when a loop is too small for the width of the quill. Here is an example with a blob. But there are also some loops that appear to have been deliberately filled with a slightly lighter (more watered-down) ink.

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This is something different. It's something I have never seen in another manuscript in the sense of using the same color. Overlaying a different color sometimes occurs.

You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. has a large number of loops that look like they have been subtly filled with a slightly lighter brown, possibly with a brush rather than a quill:

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I don't have an explanation for this. There are other folios where the scribe made vertical lines heavier by adding an extra stroke. This is not unusual in medieval manuscripts... there are some styles that use an extra stroke for artistic reasons. But filling a loop is unusual, especially in such a subtle way with the same color.
Is it experimentation? Is it something coded into the letters? Is it playfulness? Is it practice for brush control? I have no idea.