02-03-2016, 05:28 PM
(02-03-2016, 04:06 PM)Sam G wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.I only know basic Latin, but I'm pretty sure "c" is always a hard /k/ sound.
By the time the Voynich Manuscript was written different pronunciations of Latin had emerged throughout Europe. Without knowing for sure where the manuscript was produced, the writer may have considered <c> to have a sound other than /k/.
(02-03-2016, 04:22 PM)Koen Gh. wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Is there any consensus on the amount of glyphs these are? There is "pi" without anything, pi with a curvy line that touches the middle, pi with the same curvy line that touches the left leg, and pi with a curvy line that just kind of floats there. Am I correct in assuming these four forms?
I'm sure Rene will be along in time to make this point (which he has made many times before), but I'll make it for him here: the VMS is really quite small--not much bigger than a sheet of A5--and so beware assigning differences to minute variations in characters which the unaided reader would not have easily been able to make out.