The presence of FIVE

[Vonologia]

How about these three beauties, which are or are not used in the manuscript?

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I've looked extensively at alchemical symbols and I've never seen that first one in any ancient or medieval text. The second one occasionally shows up with a tick mark rather than a dot.

Was there a source listed for the first one? Is it possible that the VMS was the inspiration for the symbol (many have referred to it as an alchemical text)?

These three were created in Illustrator. The "difference" that you are seeing is actually nothing more than "rounded caps" as opposed to "square caps" or "extended caps," which are the ways used to digitize analog symbols. The alternative is the "crude" Auto-Trace many use to make typefaces. There was no intent to deceive or demean the original intention of the symbol. As an artist, the work is about "take something, make something." The actual initial symbol in the VM f57v, I think, has the "9" superscript instead of a circle, which I changed today. I'm just trying to figure out if the "FIVE" is one of these or the "Y" or "5" that was conceivably added later at the bottom right of the page of f57v.