Quote:Also, please note that there is no Latin letter a here. That's another optical illusion. It's just a VMS glyph that happens to look similar to the letter a, comprised by the joining of a c with an i, where the i has a left hook on top and attaches to the top of the c. There is absolutely no evidence that this glyph was created to represent the letter a. In fact, I see that one handwriting expert transcribes the final a of your Maria as "ct".
I have never said that the VMS glyph that resembles "a" is the letter "a". I don't even refer to them as letters, I always call them glyphs. The only time I say "a" is when I am referring to the EVA designation. In the EVA character set, this glpyh is mapped to the letter "a" on the keyboard.
It's just a shape, as far as I'm concerned.
There aren't very many handwriting experts here. Most Voynich researchers have not studied paleography. I have noticed, however, that some have good judgment and there are a few who are well-versed in the medieval Latin language, which means learning to read the old Latin character set.
I hope you are not assuming the text on the last page was written by the same scribes that wrote the Voynichese main text. I am skeptical. The text on the last page might have been written around the same time, but I don't see truly convincing evidence that it's one of the same scribes that wrote the Voynichese, in spite of the fact that there are a couple of Voynichese tokens on the page.