Which other manuscript contain the most Voynichese glyphs?
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(21-06-2018, 08:49 PM)MarcoP wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.
(19-06-2018, 07:38 AM)DONJCH wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.On another scan throiugh Capelli, I found another possible precursor for EVA-t.
(Really just honing my image handling here!)
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This is assuming that lower case analogues for gallows are acceptable, but why would an otherwise knowledgeable scribe suddenly start writing suffixes in uppercase? Does this give us some insight into his mind? Or was he a bonehead blindly copying from a text where upper and lowercase were similar, like the Oresme text? (I do not believe the latter for a minute)

Here is an example from BNF Lat 8432 (France? 1444)

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I think the first line reads:
Exora se mori greg(is) ut curam gerat alt(is)
[Remember to your flock that they will die, so that they care for what is above]

In the same ms, I have seen the same ligature used for "gl" ("gladiat").
The third word of the next line seems to me a decent Sh, but I am unable to read it.
Nice one Marco! Does this show that a textbook can be a useful guide to a manuscript search?

gis has the correct shape alright; the problem being (if it is a problem), it's lower case, and if we make it a capital G, we lose the left loop.

Whether it is a problem depends on what stage the scribe sat back with a bottle of vino to make up the glyphs and give them an independent life of their own.

Yet JKP says the glyphs retain their positional characteristics and that this could explain such features in the VMS so I think origin and case do matter if the scribe was systematic.

I agree with your identification of the 3rd word on the next line, given that his c looks like an r. Your translation helps a lot!

Question: what are the random full stops about?
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RE: Which other manuscript contain the most Voynichese glyphs? - by DONJCH - 22-06-2018, 03:01 AM

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