15-02-2017, 12:57 AM
(14-02-2017, 08:20 PM)Koen Gh. wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.While writing my latest blog post, I read on Rene's site You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. that Currier concluded that six to eight scribes wrote in the manuscript. That's main text, ignoring marginalia. I have no experience with telling apart different handwritings, so I thought I'd ask here.
Has this been confirmed? Has anyone else studied this in detail?
I have experience in studying and comparing different handwriting, including medieval handwriting and formal calligraphy, and I have made a point of not looking at Currier's designations because I didn't want to be influenced by his opinions.
I'm studying this in detail... so much detail that it's taken me years to collect the data I have so far. It's not enough to just look at the hands and form an opinion, which is why I haven't written this up yet... One needs to justify the choices with samples and other corroboratory information, and to do this, I have studied thousands of manuscripts and selected hundreds of samples for both the marginalia and the main text.
It's a bigger project than I expected but even so, worth doing, I think. Even though Voynichese is a constructed glyph set, quite a few of the glyphs are conventional medieval shapes, so it's possible to study them in that context.