27-10-2018, 02:06 PM
I see, ReneZ, but... if the ae ligature was not in use during late medieval times, doesn't that actually make it more likely that someone of that time, seeing it in an older ms, could mistake it for an x and copy it as an x?
My initial point was that the Voynich scribe would have been unfamiliar with this ligature.
But of course, as MarcoP points out, all of Moriae seems to be an erroneous transcription of Novae anyway.
It would be interesting to find a manuscript copy of the papal bull in question (I believe there is one 15th C handwritten copy of the Bull in Lucca: Arch. di Stato, Cod. S. Frediano 7 (Contratti G) fol. 111, but this has not been digitized.
My initial point was that the Voynich scribe would have been unfamiliar with this ligature.
But of course, as MarcoP points out, all of Moriae seems to be an erroneous transcription of Novae anyway.
It would be interesting to find a manuscript copy of the papal bull in question (I believe there is one 15th C handwritten copy of the Bull in Lucca: Arch. di Stato, Cod. S. Frediano 7 (Contratti G) fol. 111, but this has not been digitized.