[split] Humanist handwriting in the MS?

[Anton]

The Voynich glyphs are Latin shapes: alphabet, numbers, ligatures and scribal abbreviations. I have thousands of examples.

Well, some people argue them being native to Mesoamerica, so you see there's room for discussion.

But I just stumbled upon another, very curious, example - which is not Latin script. The document is from the so-called "Lithuaninan Metrica", which is the collection of legal documents (spanning over five centuries) of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. At present, the collection is disjoint, with its major part being preserved in Moscow, but also in the Polish AGAD and some other places.

The document is written in Russian (except for the Polish language part), hence in Cyrillic script. It is dated to 29th December, 1609 and represents a statement of Russian boyars. It features a shape which is strikingly resembling Voynichese s. As I can see, here it stands for the consonant "t", but the strange part of it is that here it is used together with the conventional Russian "T", which, in its lower case variant, loosely resembles Latin "m", and is widely used in writing until now (in print, the same shape "T" as for the capital letter is used). What is the orthographical rule dictating when to use "T" and when to use s, I don't understand. Notice that s is also used as a superscript, but that is just to correct its omissions.

I'm not very comfortable with old Cyrillic scripts and don't know what's the history and designation of the "s" glyph.

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