(08-06-2017, 01:34 PM)Anton wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Left-handed-ness is the obvious explanation, but I recall that it was discussed and rejected in the past. I completely forgot the argumentation, but I remember that I considered it reasonable. I can add that since lefthanders are a minotity, it's not very probable that both A and B were lefthanders.
Unless they were siblings, or father and son, working on the project together, something that was pretty common in the middle ages since it was typically fathers who taught their sons to write. Daughters were rarely taught to write unless they were nobility. Handedness is genetic.
It might be significant that Voynichese and Latin characters are mixed on the last page. It's not just the two Voynichese tokens on the bottom left, but also the backward-leaning straight leg in "vix" that looks Voynichese.