Matches for the marginalia Latin script [IN OTHER MANUSCRIPTS]

[MarcoP]

It may help to compile a bullet point list of features that stand out in this script. What are all the pointers we are looking for?

Hi Koen, the script is a "Cursiva" as defined You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.:

The identifying features of Cursiva are a single-story a; loops on the ascenders of b h k l; and descenders on f and the straight or long (formerly “tall”) version of s.

A first filter could be checking for the presence of these features, but they will be frequent in XV Century manuscripts.

We can take an example from that same page (Geneva, Bibliothèque de Genève, MS fr. 1/2, 1rb, ll. 9-10.)
   


These are some of the features of the Voynich script I find relevant (but I am sure more can be added):

• Characters are "smooth" without the Gothic "angles" one can see in the Geneva ms (this is more a peculiarity of the Geneva ms than of the VMS).
  
• Rare use of abbreviation symbols in the VMS (a single abbreviated word, You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. "luc(em)?", in more than 20 words).
  
• In the VMS, characters are typically not connected: "malhor" in You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. is made of six glyphs that do not touch each other. If it is "mallier", li is written as a ligature and two characters touch each other. "anchiton" (f116v) is made of four unconnected bits: an-ch-i-ton. In the  Geneva manuscript, words mostly are fully connected, if by almost invisible hair-strokes.
  
• No particularly bold strokes in the VMS (see the heavy long s in the Geneva ms) but consistently thin strokes.
  
• Open-top p (see 116v first line)
  
• x with a loop on the right side
  
• Downward extending flourishes in the first / last characters of words (116v: umen - first line; ubren, gas and mich - line 4)
  
• Open g (no lower loop): again gas, 116v line 4
  
• Open d (no upper loop): 116v, line 2, "oladabas" and 66r
  

And the already mentioned:

• Markedly triangular loops on b, l, h
  
• Perfectly 8-shaped s
  
• No 2-shaped r (see pro and colleterali in the Geneva ms)