Suggestions for decomposition of the Voynichese characters
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(11-06-2017, 02:06 PM)Anton wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Looking closer at f1r, I would agree now that it is not a good candidate indeed; but at the same time I would note that, although the writing is ambiguos, but, very strangely, only in part. What I mean is: look e.g. at line 1, vord 4. Is it ytaiin or ataiin? The first character is ambiguous. But, at the same time, there is a very clear y as early as in the very first vord of this line, and a very clear a is observed already in line 2, if not in the vord *taiin itself. This does not look as "getting accustomed". This sadly looks as having troubles in copying. Another option is that it was written just carelessly. That it is the first folio in the binding does not mean that it was written in the first place. A blank page might have been left for to be filled in later (like, to provide abstracts of chapters yet to be written).

The circle is smaller for the [y] then for the [o]. In my eyes this indicates that the word is [ytaiin]. 

This are the correction I would made for the transcription of Takahashi for page f1r: 
<f1r.P1.1;H> ataiin --> ytaiin
<f1r.P1.2;H> Shar are --> Shar air
<f1r.P1.3;H> sa- --> sy-
<f1r.P1.4;H> ooiin oteey oteos roloty cth*ar daiin otaiin --> doiin oteey oteor roloty cThaar daiin okaiin
<f1r.P1.5;H> dair y chear --> sairy chear
<f1r.P2.7;H> odar o y Shol --> odar sy Shol
<f1r.P3.12;H> scKhey --> scKhhy
<f1r.P3.13;H> cThey She oldain --> cThhy Shy oldain
<f1r.P3.17;H> chokain --> chekain
<f1r.P4.22;H> ro d*- --> ro dar-
<f1r.P4.23;H> *doin chol --> ydoin chol
<f1r.P4.26;H> d*eeo Shody --> dcheo Shody

There is a clear indication that the the text was not copied. The end of the lines nearly always fit into the available space. Also the text placed around illustrations fits into available space. That the text considers the available space indicates that the scribe was also the author of the manuscript.
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RE: Suggestions for decomposition of the Voynichese characters - by Torsten - 12-06-2017, 09:44 AM

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