(28-08-2018, 01:27 PM)-JKP- wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. The authors are claiming that the following shape from "florid Spanish signatures" on Osuma f 13v inspired Voynichese p:
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Tucker and Janick then make this statement, based on shapes that they may not realize are commonly found in medieval manuscripts but which they are specifically picking out of MesoAmerican texts...
"We thus conclude that the author of the Voynich Codex made up his syllabary/alphabet, and the letters were borrowed from contemporary post-Conquest MesoAmerican manuscripts such as the Codex Osuma."
JKP, don't worry, we all agree with you I think and you make your points very well as always.
Just wanted to point out that the example of the Eva p precursor character that you and Koen and Marco found in the litiera oblongata thread was much better and more plausible than this one. As you pointed out, the loop on the right that nobody mentions...