03-12-2025, 06:54 PM
I have been thinking apart how to distinguish distinct glyphs in the Voynich manuscript and the way that makes most sense to me is to view interconnected or joined symbols to count as one glyph unit. So "aiiin" would count as one glyph. This way of defining glyphs increases their number, but seems more logical, otherwise one has to decide when to disentangle connected symbols and treat them as separate glyphs and this would seem to be very arbitrary and confusing. I know that someone might point to some complex interconnected benched gallows, but even in their case I am inclined to treat them as one glyph.