24-02-2017, 12:00 AM
The question "Where are the numbers in the VMS?" now and then is touched upon in Voynich discussions.
I would suggest to turn this question into the direction of reverse engineering and transform it as follows:
Where should we expect numbers in such manuscripts, to begin with?
The reader will reasonably ask: "what "such" manuscripts"?" Well, I don't know. Let's judge by the graphical content.
First of all, obviously, we would expect numbers in the page and quire numbering. They are there, indeed, but unfortunately they are in plain text, nothing special.
There also is that strange f49v.
What about other places where numbers would be appropriate?
I would suggest to turn this question into the direction of reverse engineering and transform it as follows:
Where should we expect numbers in such manuscripts, to begin with?
The reader will reasonably ask: "what "such" manuscripts"?" Well, I don't know. Let's judge by the graphical content.
First of all, obviously, we would expect numbers in the page and quire numbering. They are there, indeed, but unfortunately they are in plain text, nothing special.
There also is that strange f49v.
What about other places where numbers would be appropriate?