Unraveling the Voynich Codex

[davidjackson]

The authors are claiming that the following shape from "florid Spanish signatures" on Osuma f 13v inspired Voynichese p:

I'm sorry, that's just nonsense. You're trying to tell me that no other language has a 'florid signature' ? Or that Spanish uniquely used to have a stylistic convention in signatures that led to this symbol being commonly accepted ?
I've certainly never picked up on this 'symbol' in all of the many Spanish early documents I've seen. Following this logic to its conclusion, at could claim that we have identified the inspiration for the book - we just look to find an influential Spaniard with this signature. We could even link it to Fernando, his signature has a similar style - could be a family joke upon Rudolph! 
JKP has linked it to far more convincing - and earlier - Latin stylistic conventions which are far more likely to have been the inspiration.

The' journal of voynich studies ' once ran a similar claim that the only voynich glyph outside the corpus had been identified in a document. It turned out to be a florid f seen through the reverse of the document scan. This seems to be much the same.