31-12-2018, 12:38 AM
So how could we explain the use of Gothic abbreviations and ligatures in the Vms?
The humanist script only has the ligatures "ct", "et" and "st". But the humanist scribes could not use the Gothic abbreviations because these stood for Latin -us, -orum, -em, -am, -is and so on. For the sake of consistency, the vernacular languages needed no more Latin abbreviations.
So how can we make sense of the Voynichese abbreviations and ligatures if it were a humanist script?
The humanist script only has the ligatures "ct", "et" and "st". But the humanist scribes could not use the Gothic abbreviations because these stood for Latin -us, -orum, -em, -am, -is and so on. For the sake of consistency, the vernacular languages needed no more Latin abbreviations.
So how can we make sense of the Voynichese abbreviations and ligatures if it were a humanist script?