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[Antonio García Jiménez]

I've been thinking in something JKP has often insisted: the resemblance of VM glyphs with Latin letters and scribal abbreviation conventions. He's right and some glyphs seem to follow these conventions in shape and position. If we think that the scribe was trained in Latin script is logical that he translated his habits to the new invented script to make it look more scientific. Latin was the language of the science and the Voynich is a scientific book.
   As JKP has also said, scribal abbreviations were used in all mayor european languages not only Latin. So what the scribe did was to use them in a new language, one I think is a non-verbal language. How do I believe there aren't any letters in the VM script, I don't think the abbreviations substitute letters or syllables. What some of them do is to replace others glyphs. Par example, the 9-like glyph (EVA-y) substitute (o) and (a) because they have complementary functions. And all the three glyphs stand for the grade of the sphere.
  For me the nine in a row (o) of the outer ring of f70r1 is a decisive clue. (o) it's not a letter, it's a grade of the sphere, and what the author of VM did was to put the different position of the Sun, Moon and stars moving in a Volvelle in a running script.