15-02-2016, 02:43 PM
(02-02-2016, 11:31 PM)crezac wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.
If you start with You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. there are, at the end of what I refer to as paragraphs one or two glyph-strings that are right justified. Sort of like labels, but just oddly spaced strings for now.
Crezac raises a point here about a subject that I would like to hear more about: the right-justified short phrases are found in many places at the end of paragraphs in the Voynich Manuscript.
What is the explanation for this layout? IIUC these have been referred to as labels, is that right?
I would like to understand whether this is a type of layout that is frequent in manuscripts of the time, and what such "labels" typically contain.
To my 21st century eyes, they look like references, indicating that the text in the paragraph above them is from such and such an author or book. But that's probably an anachronism...
Are they in fact just text from the preceding paragraph that continues on this line? Could this be an indication that, in spite of appearances, the text was written right to left?