Which other manuscript contain the most Voynichese glyphs?
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This mid-15th-century German manuscript uses essentially the same conventions as the VMS:

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On this page you will see ris, tis, the arc-shaped apostrophe, r with a tail, c/e with a tail, EVA-y (especially at the ends of words) and backswinging tails on other letters, as well.

Also per and pro (p with a line through it or a curve through it) which, if you shifted them up so they were uppercase letters would be somewhat reminiscent of gallows P-glyphs (not exactly, but along the same lines). There is also a long macron through the b and l in "horribil[is]" (near the bottom-right) similar to a bench.

Notice also that a number of the letters lean backwards (r, i, m, t). Not quite as much lean as the VMS, but they lean back more than forward.

There really is nothing unusual about the VMS glyph shapes except for the composition of some of the gallows and even those might turn out to be re-combinations of the other scribal components already in use in the VMS. The main difference is the paucity of non-scribal shapes and the positional rigidity of those that look like letters of the alphabet, but don't behave as one might expect from natural language.
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RE: Which other manuscript contain the most Voynichese glyphs? - by -JKP- - 16-06-2018, 05:28 PM

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