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RE: The Tepenecz signature in book no. 4: a concern - ReneZ - 01-06-2019
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.
RE: The Tepenecz signature in book no. 4: a concern - -JKP- - 01-06-2019