[split] Color annotations?

[ReneZ]

There are a couple of things about the stand-alone symbol in the right margin of You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. that one can say objectively, i.e. not (yet) speculating too much:

- The size of this symbol is clearly smaller than that of the main text. It is of similar size as the symbols drawn inside the flowers on the same page
- All larger symbols on this page are in 'Voynichese' writing, while the smaller symbols appear to be of the latin alphabet
- An Eva y with a horizontal serif at the top ( Y ) appears in a few words in the MS, to connect it to the next character. Stand-alone, it may appear just once out of several thousands of occurrences of y . It is a standard part of the letter 'g' in  many scripts of the time.
- In other herbal manuscripts, colour annotations may be written both inside and outside the plant drawing. An example is the already quoted Vicenza MS 362, fol.34r

Of course, we cannot be certain that this is a colour annotation. Same for the unreadable scribble between the petals of the top left flower.