Which other manuscript contain the most Voynichese glyphs?

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I don't remember if this one was shared already, an explosion of loops:



11th century German Imperial script

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Koen, you've posted an interesting example because it includes both meaningful loops and unmeaningful loops (in the linguistic sense), a concept that is probably important in sorting out VMS glyphs.

For example,

• the two half-loops (looks like double-cee) are frequently used in early- and mid-medieval manuscripts to indicate "u" (the "qu" combination),
  
• the long-ess is merely embellished in many places (the loops are not abbreviations),
  
• the line and loops on "abbas" indicate abbreviations (usually these loops represent "abbatis" and are drawn in many different ways and sometimes resemble benched gallows),
  
• the st ligature commonly had a loop but here has multiple loops (embellishments, not linguistically meaningful),
  
• the fourth word on the first line includes the "squiggle" apostrophe in one of its earlier forms. Most of the time it represents er/re/ir/er/r, so it is lingistically meaningful. In the early medieval texts, it frequently resembles the curvy version of Indic-Arabic numeral 1, as it almost does here. In later texts, the shape became more like a lightening bolt and less like a one, and
  
• the horizontally looping figure 8 shapes (the joined ones) are meaningful except when used to embellish the long-s (and some of the other long ascenders). They are a fancy version of the macron (horizontal-bar apostrophe). You can see them above omnium and Christi at the end of the first line. Most of the time, they represent missing "m" or "n" but they can be used as a general-purpose apostrophe, as well.
  

Once one gets used to distinguishing them, it becomes even more apparent that the VMS scribes were familliar with these conventions. They can be found in both forms throughout the manuscript.The catch is that we don't know if the VMS assigns "meaningful" and "nonmeaningful" in the same way. I suspect it does based on patterns of where they are found, but cannot prove it... yet.