The Voynich Ninja

I thought the symbols under the ?s were a capital L and a capital N (or maybe M)

(18-09-2024, 08:35 AM)Koen G Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.I assume that when Marci was writing, his own alphabet likely included the "j".

Does he use "j" in his letters? Do we have any non-latin texts from him? His own name started with "j" but signatures might be a different matter.

(18-09-2024, 05:44 AM)asteckley Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.the "scribble" seems pretty clearly to be the result of someone writing the same form over and over again. They have written it at least 6 times, and appear to be "practice writing" to perfect the writing of a particular letter

Was this a normal scribal practice? Are there similar examples in other contemporary manuscripts? I would assume drawing a large letter over and over is something a pupil learning to write would do. At least I did in primary school.

Hi, everyone,

You may enjoy this presentation by Roger Easton, who was part of the Project Lazarus team that captured the MSI images in 2014:

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He presents some background on the imaging and provides technical details.

(17-09-2024, 08:19 PM)Koen G Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Edit: about the A, it is quite similar indeed. If we assume for a moment that this was indeed writing, could it have been A for anno? (And thus perhaps have been followed by numbers).

I've seen a number of An.'s indicating years in the last two days. Some of them have a similar shape. However, it seems to me a bit strange to write anno at the very bottom right of the page and in such huge letters. I've seen quite a few signatures bigger than the squiggle, but I've never seen the metadata (I guess there should be a more appropriate word?) written in huge letters.

Just a random An. for illustration.

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