[split] Humanist handwriting in the MS?
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The Voynich glyphs are Latin shapes: alphabet, numbers, ligatures and scribal abbreviations. I have thousands of examples.

There really are only a few exceptions and these are not especially unusual either, since they tend toward Greek shapes and abbreviations.


These are the two classical languages most often studied by medieval scholars. It's not uncommon to find Greek alphabet and number pages included in Latin manuscripts, as well as Greek root words and loan words, so seeing them together is not unusual either.

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What is unusual is how they are organized within tokens. While some of the abbreviation shapes hold the same positions as they do in Latin (e.g., EVA-y, EVA-m), while others follow a certain specific VMS order and do not show the same variety of positions as is typical of Latin (or other natural languages).
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RE: [split] Humanist handwriting in the MS? - by -JKP- - 29-05-2018, 02:34 AM

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