Which other manuscript contain the most Voynichese glyphs?
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(22-06-2018, 03:01 AM)DONJCH wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Nice one Marco! Does this show that a textbook can be a useful guide to a manuscript search?

Hi Don, I agree!
Most of us are amateurs with no formal training in palaeography: secondary sources can be immensely helpful and prevent a good deal of wheel-reinventing.  A disadvantage of course is that reinventing wheels is fun Smile

(22-06-2018, 03:01 AM)DONJCH wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.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.

I see you point. I think that you expressed it very well in a previous post when you said that these abbreviations have no "ascenders". Everything is possible of course, but my opinion is that, being embedded inside words, Voynich gallows look more like ascending minuscules than capital letters.

(22-06-2018, 03:01 AM)DONJCH wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.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.

The Latin -is abbreviation is normally word-final, so this could either be a counter example about the correlation between Voynich and Latin glyph positions or suggest that the gallows are not related with this abbreviation. I have no definite opinion at the moment.

(22-06-2018, 03:01 AM)DONJCH wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.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!

Thank you, but please take my readings with a grain of salt: I often make mistakes and in this case the Latin grammar seems slightly dubious. 
Anyway, Ch is frequent for 'ci' and Sh for 'cri' (even if I am not sure this is the case here). This is something I hope to document in the future. I find the thing interesting also because 'ci' and 'cri' can occur in similar phonetic contexts, like Voynich Ch and Sh do.

(22-06-2018, 03:01 AM)DONJCH wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Question: what are the random full stops about?

I think the one in "gerat.altis" is a word separator. Since the text is poetry, I believe most other occurrences mark the two 7-syllables halves of 14-syllables verses.
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RE: Which other manuscript contain the most Voynichese glyphs? - by MarcoP - 22-06-2018, 08:49 AM

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