Which other manuscript contain the most Voynichese glyphs?
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(08-06-2018, 03:12 AM)DONJCH wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.VIENNA, NATIONALBIBLIOTHEK, Cod. Vindob. 2398.
Franciscus Tranchedinus,
Furtivae litterarum notae .
This codex contains some two hundred ciphers
used by the Milanese Chancery
between 1450 and 1496. Ciphers shown date
from ca.1450. Original .

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But to quote Rene: 
"Even down to such special things as Currier 'S', the i-shaped variant of Currier-S, 'SO' ligatures, picnic tables, and things like the 'chinese hat in corner', looking more like the mirror image of Arabic 'k'."

Have we progressed much in the last 20 years? Smile

Thank you, DONJCH! Tranchedinus is obviously interesting. If I am not mistaken, Tranchedinus' manuscript is not digitally available yet, so we cannot check how many Voynichese characters appear in it (a job that would take several hours, I guess). Yet, we can rely on what Jim Reeds and Rene Zandbergen said in the ixoloxi page you linked: among the hundreds of ciphers presented by Tranchedinus, there are no "gallows" characters.

Also, some of the progress made in the last 20 years is the carbon dating of the VMS: now we know that Tranchedinus is a few decades later than the VMS. It can still be a useful and informative parallel (like those I discussed above) but inspiration must have come from earlier manuscripts.

(08-06-2018, 03:12 AM)DONJCH wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Also this:
 [Image: tavolaiv-top.jpg]

from the same thread.

This is an amazing illustration! It was You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view..

Finding good matches for the gallows ( t p f in particular, k is relatively frequent as -tis) is not easy. Parallels for benched gallows are even harder: I believe these are the best I have seen. Again, it is a pity that only a small detail of the document is available.

In my opinion, Koen's idea of finding the best single source for Voynichese glyphs is potentially useful, if difficult and time consuming to pursue. Of course, it could be that the VMS was inspired by several different manuscripts, but finding the closest scripts could still tell us something about the authorship of the VMS.
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RE: Which other manuscript contain the most Voynichese glyphs? - by MarcoP - 08-06-2018, 12:14 PM

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