[split] Humanist handwriting in the MS?

[-JKP-]

JKP, I esteem very much your work but always I read about Latin o any other language in relation with the Voynich, I ask to myself the same: why so many learned men in the Court of Rodolphe II don't discover any language in the XVII century? They was more used to manuscripts, scribal conventions, ligatures, letter shapes, etc, etc. They was as puzzled as we are, but their background was infinitely bigger.

I am not talking about the Latin language. I have never said that the Voynich text is the Latin language. It might be and it might not.

The Latin ALPHABET and Latin SCRIBAL CONVENTIONS, including abbreviations, ligatures, numbers, etc., are used in many languages (French, German, Latin, Czech, Italian, Spanish, English, Scandinavian, etc.) and these shapes and conventions are strongly evident in the shape of the VMS glyphs.

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I believe it DOES matter to identify these similarities because it provides information on the cultural exposure of whoever designed the Voynich text, and it also aids in determining which variations in shapes might be embellishments or simple differences in the movement of the pen and which variations might be meaningful.

I see strong evidence in the text that certain variations in VMS glyphs echo meaningful variations in Latin scribal conventions. I also see strong evidence that the location of these scribal conventions within VMS tokens follow conventions in medieval languages that used Latin characters.