The discussion about gallows being added afterwards reminds me of rubrication, where the scribe would sometimes leave a mark where the rubricator had to add in the letter. It may be far fetched, but I'll mention it anyways.
I've lately been looking at Pseudo-Apuleius, because his glossaries are basically what I think the root-and-leaf section is as well (it would explain some things about returning words and near-synonyms in the paragraphs: they may just be similar names for the plant).
Now to get to the point, take a look at this page, for example.
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Note how marks, in this case the letters, have been made in the leftmost column for the rubricator. Now let's put them in a paragraph, like Voynich paragraphs. I'll leave the red letters red, think of those as gallows:
In the Voynich we have a limited number of gallows, with a limited number of "prefixes", like the "o-" or "4o". The gallows don't have a one-to one relationship to the prefixes, so we can eliminate the above scenario. Maybe at one stage, the "prefixes" were meant to be marks for a colleague, for example colour markers? The gallows are not colored, but we might assume that this was a later task that didn't get finished.
I've lately been looking at Pseudo-Apuleius, because his glossaries are basically what I think the root-and-leaf section is as well (it would explain some things about returning words and near-synonyms in the paragraphs: they may just be similar names for the plant).
Now to get to the point, take a look at this page, for example.
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Note how marks, in this case the letters, have been made in the leftmost column for the rubricator. Now let's put them in a paragraph, like Voynich paragraphs. I'll leave the red letters red, think of those as gallows:
Quote:aAlii augion aAlii lycion aAlii lycoscon aAlii lycopsolon aAlii torcavion oOftanes dicit ypnoticon
In the Voynich we have a limited number of gallows, with a limited number of "prefixes", like the "o-" or "4o". The gallows don't have a one-to one relationship to the prefixes, so we can eliminate the above scenario. Maybe at one stage, the "prefixes" were meant to be marks for a colleague, for example colour markers? The gallows are not colored, but we might assume that this was a later task that didn't get finished.