[split] Humanist handwriting in the MS?
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Thank you, Anton! One of the interesting thing is that the n-like flourish tends to be word-final in Latin as it is in the VMS. In this example, it generically stands for "truncation". See for instance "dei gratia"
   

I think it is perfectly legitimate to consider the possibility that the word-end-only glyphs in the VMS correspond to other glyphs when in other positions.

Another interesting detail of this script is the 'th' ligature, which is vaguely gallows-like (see "Bartholomeus").
   

Also, 'ci' sometimes looks like Ch ("citato", "principis").
       

PS: one of the differences between this hand and what can be observed in the VMS is the shape of "p". I am thinking of the Voynich Latin-alphabet marginalia and color annotations: in those, "p" typically (always?) has a loop which is open at the top. In TVars CVars dissoluta, "p" is also peculiar, with a double vertical bar  traced as a narrow descending-ascending loop. This "p" appears to be written without lifting the pen from the page, while Voynich "p" is written in two distinct strokes.
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RE: [split] Humanist handwriting in the MS? - by MarcoP - 29-05-2018, 10:53 AM

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