02-12-2018, 01:42 PM
(02-12-2018, 01:21 PM)Morten St. George wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.move-the-letter-down way.
JP, By no means am I trying to argue facts with you. I can see that it looks like the Latin cz. I agree that the z drops below the c as it would in Latin, whereas the VMS z rises above the c. But that's not the point. The point is that the marginalia wasn't written by the original authors of the VMS but rather by people who are trying to inform how to decode the thing.
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This is pure supposition.
You don't know if the marginalia is contemporary with the creation of the VMS or not. The handwriting is old, possibly as old as the early 14th century. It may have been someone who proofread or reviewed or advised on the VMS. It may have been the first owner after its creation, sometime who knew the creators. It may have been someone who knew how Voynichese worked, or it might have been the first person who acquired it who didn't know how Voynichese worked and was trying to figure it out.
The column of letters on You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. right-hand side looks far more like an effort at decoding the VMS than the text on 17r.